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Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.

John Wayne

A friend of mine told me to shoot first and ask questions later. I was going to ask him why, but I had to shoot him.
JOHN WAYNE

Asks Firsts Mine
Paul Newman would have been a much more important star if he hadn’t always tried to be an anti-hero, to show the human feet of clay.
JOHN WAYNE

Feet Hero Stars
If you can’t be thankful for what you have, be thankful for what you have escaped.
JOHN WAYNE

Being Thankful Thankfulness
Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.
JOHN WAYNE

Art Motion Pictures
In my acting, I have to identify with something in the character. The big tough boy on the side of right – that’s me. Simple themes. Same me from the nuances. All I do is sell sincerity and I’ve been selling the hell out of that ever since I started.
JOHN WAYNE

Boys Character Simple
It rankles me when somebody tries to force somebody to do something.
JOHN WAYNE

Libertarian Liberty Trying
Life is tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid.
JOHN WAYNE

Education Inspirational Life
Sometimes I wonder whose side God’s on.
JOHN WAYNE

God Sides Sometimes
I’ve had three wives, six children and six grandchildren and I still don’t understand women
JOHN WAYNE

Children Three Wife
Well, there are some things a man just can’t run away from.
JOHN WAYNE

Men Running Western Movie
There’s right and there’s wrong. You got to do one or the other. You do the one and you’re living. You do the other and you may be walking around, but you’re dead as a beaver hat.
JOHN WAYNE

Decision Hats May
True Grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. No moral man can have peace of mind if he leaves undone what he knows he should have done.
JOHN WAYNE

Leadership Men Sports
I figured I needed a gimmick, so I dreamed up this drawl, the squint and a way of moving meant to suggest that I wasn’t looking for trouble but would just as soon throw a bottle at your head as not. I practiced in front of a mirror.
JOHN WAYNE

Bottles Mirrors Moving
Get off your butt and join the Marines!
JOHN WAYNE

Country Marine People Person
Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.
JOHN WAYNE

Regret Tomorrow Yesterday
courage is being scared to death – and saddling up anyway” “A goal, A love and A dream give you total control over your body and your life
JOHN WAYNE

Dream Giving Goal

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