Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.

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Self-parody is the first portent of age.

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Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated.

Larry McMurtry in Flim Flam - Essays on Hollywood
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A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.

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Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

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Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.

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One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider.

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True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it.

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Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made.

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No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.

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