True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done.
JOHN WAYNEGeneral MacArthur told me, “You represent the American serviceman better than the American serviceman himself.”
More John Wayne Quotes
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My hope and prayer is that everyone know and love our country for what she really is and what she stands for.
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Courage is being afraid and going on the journey anyhow.
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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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One look that works is better than twenty lines of dialogue.
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I’ve had three wives, six children and six grandchildren and I still don’t understand women
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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.
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I’m an American actor. I work with my clothes on. I have to. Riding a horse can be pretty tough on your legs and elsewheres.
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I’ve made over 250 pictures and have never shot a guy in the back. Change it.
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Ahh, women! I never met one yet that was half as reliable as a horse!
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Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.
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Out here, due process is a bullet.
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Thanking people is dangerous business. A name always slips your mind.
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Nobody ever saw a cowboy on the psychiatrist’s couch.
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I don’t have to assert my virility. I think my career has shown that I’m not exactly a pantywaist. But I do take pride in my work, even to the point of being the first one on the set in the morning. I’m a professional.
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We brought nothing into this world and it’s certain we can carry nothing out.
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