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Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon.

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Robert Duvall
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 5
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Robert Selden Duvall
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I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, Godfather I and Godfather II, and Lonesome Dove.
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When I knew nothing, I thought I could do anything.
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You obviously don't have to be a murderer to play a murderer or you don't have to be a dictator to play a dictator. So, you're an actor. You come up with whatever you come up with to play that part.
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God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost.
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It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre.
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Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review.
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I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.
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Everybody likes to win.
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You know, Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, that a lot of people from New York don't know what goes on beyond the South Jersey Shore.
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As long as they keep offering me some good parts and so forth - there are some parts out there that fit me pretty well - I'll keep going for a while.
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Sometimes directors will hire you and say, 'Oh, we love your work.' And then they start to tell you how to do it. I say, 'Hey, man, back off. You hired me to do it. Let me do it.'
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There's no smoking section in heaven.
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I try not to look for messages in films.
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It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes.
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Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long.
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We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible.
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Look, Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.
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I wouldn't mind starting to ride some more if I had a really good horse to just work a little bit with every day.
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I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier.
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Cows is one thing. But one man telling another man where he can go in this country is something else.
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