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

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John Wayne
Age: 72 †
Born: 1907
Born: May 26
Died: 1979
Died: June 11
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American Football Player
Film Actor
Film Director
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Winterset
Iowa
Marion Mitchell Morrison
Marion Robert Morrison
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I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
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