American - Actor | September 15, 1946 -
Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.
Tommy Lee Jones
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I haven't a clue if there is life on other planets but I'd be charmed if we found a unicellular organism on Mars. It would change our whole concept of life on Earth.
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The quality of one's emotional life changes over the years, doesn't it? But the basic instincts and desires, greed and hope, seem to remain constant. In the larger scope of things, there's a sense of fulfillment to living a creative life. So I guess that's what keeps me going.
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In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect.
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If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.
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Partnerships are good engines for narrative.
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I felt like the luckiest kid in the world because God had put me on the ground in Texas. I actually felt sorry for those poor little kids that had to be born in Oklahoma or England or some place. I knew I was living in the best place in the world.
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The tactic of leading people into... a war that doesn't make any sense by telling them they are under attack, and if they raise any objection they're unpatriotic, is a very old tactic. And it doesn't intimidate me.
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Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.
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You know, I don't really think you have to play nice guys.
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I know a lot of cowboys and I've done a little work on ranches with cattle, and those people become your friends, and keep their word.
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Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It's just not a good way to think. It's non-thinking. It's stupid and destructive.
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