My hope and prayer is that everyone know and love our country for what she really is and what she stands for.
JOHN WAYNERepublic. I like the sound of the word. It means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose. Some words give you a feeling.
More John Wayne Quotes
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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.
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Communism is quite obviously still a threat. Yes, they are human beings, with a right to their point of view . . .
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Out here, due process is a bullet.
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The reason there are so many stupid people is because it’s illegal to kill them.
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Sometimes I wonder whose side God’s on.
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All battles are fought by scared men who’d rather be some place else.
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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.
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America is the land of freedom and that’s the way I enjoy living.
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Let’s say I hope that I appeal to the more carefree times in a person’s life rather than to his reasoning adulthood. I’d just like to be an image that reminds someone of joy rather than of the problems of the world.
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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.
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I stick to simple themes. Love. Hate. No nuances. I stay away from psychoanalyst’s couch scenes. Couches are good for one thing.
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I want to play a real man in all my films, and I define manhood simply: men should be tough, fair, and courageous, never petty, never looking for a fight, but never backing down from one either.
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Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.
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Thanking people is dangerous business. A name always slips your mind.
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You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman.
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