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The Cruelty Of Nature Is You Have To Work Out Harder When You Get Older ... It Should Be The Other Way Around: Work Out Hard When You're A Kid You Should Be Able To Coast When You Get Older. But Unfortunately You Have To Do More To Stay In The Same Position.

-Clint Eastwood

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The Cruelty Of Nature

Clint Eastwood

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The Cruelty Of Nature Is You Have To Work Out Harder When You Get Older ... It Should Be The Other Way Around: Work Out Hard When You're A Kid You Should Be Able To Coast When You Get Older. But Unfortunately You Have To Do More To Stay In The Same Position.

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Knowledgeable Person

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Learning Something New

If You're Doing A Biography, You Try To Stay As Accurate As Possible To Reality. But You Really Don't Know What Was Going On In The Person's Mind. You Just Know What Was Going On In The Minds Of People Around Him.

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With People In High Office, The Old - You Go Into The Extreme, Which Is Absolute Power And Absolute Power Corrupts.

Nobody Looks Like They Did When They Were 20, So Why Not Take Advantage Of The Fact That You're Changing, Emotionally As Well As Physically?

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Famous Inspirational

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Well, If You're Waitin' For A Woman To Make Up Her Mind, You May Have A A Long Wait.

I Don't Mind Telling A Dark Side.

If You Can Make A Good Picture That Actually Has Some Substance, That's Doubly Good Nowadays 'cause Most Everybody Else Is Trying To Address How Many Cgi Plates We're Gonna Do, What Little Being Is Gonna Come In From Another Asteroid.

When You're An Actor, You're So Busy: People Are Always Coming Up To You And Pulling Your Collar, Making Sure That Things Fit, Brushing Your Hair And You're Always Being Yanked Up, So Finally When You're Behind A Camera, You're Just A Slob.

Every Man Has Got To Know His Limitations.

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Everybody Thinks Making Films Back To Back Is A Big Deal But They Did It All The Time In The Old Days.

A Lot Of People When They Retire, They Just Expire. It Happens To Men More Than Women. Women Usually Have Great Interest In The Family, Because The Family's Always Growing And They're Always Coming To The Rescue.

I Don't Necessarily Look For Dark Themes; They Just Seem To Appear.

I've Taken Advantage Of A Few Breaks That Came Along And Moved Along With Them.

There's Only One Way To Have A Happy Marriage And As Soon As I Learn What It Is I'll Get Married Again.

The Craving For Information Is So Huge Now, And It Can Be Marketed At Such A Rapid Rate.

I'd Been Trying To Retire To The Back Of The Camera For Quite A Few Years. And Then, In 1970, When I First Started Directing, I If I Could Pull This Off, I Can Some Day Just Move In Back Of The Camera And Stay There.

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The Story [for The Western Genre] Is Everything. Whether It's A Book Or A Screenplay, The Story Drives Everything. And If You Just Go Out And Try To Make One By Putting On Boots And Jumping On A Horse And Riding Off... If You Don't Have The Material, The Characters And The Things To Overcome And Conflicts That Give Life To Drama, You Don't Have It.

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I Don't Know How Everybody Else Feels, But I Just Long For Reality Rather Than These Made-up Things.

I Mean, I've Always Been A Libertarian. Leave Everybody Alone. Let Everybody Else Do What They Want. Just Stay Out Of Everybody Else's Hair.

The Prospect Of Dating Someone In Her Twenties Becomes Less Appealing As You Get Older. At Some Point In Your Fife, Your Tolerance Level Goes Down And You Realize That, With Someone Much Younger, There's Nothing Really To Talk About.

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Instead Of Calling Everybody Names, Start Being More Understanding.

Acting To Me Is A Very Organic Art Form And You Just Go And Do It. And I Like To Direct The Same Way That I Like To Be Directed. Let Me Bring In What I Want To Bring In, And If Something's Wrong, Just Tell Me About It And I'll Make Some Corrections Or Adjustments. And That's What I Do.

Plagiarism Is Always The Biggest Thing In Hollywood.

You Change As The Years Go By. The More Knowledge You Get, The More Things Change In Your Life And Circumstances Change.

I'm Just A Kid. I've Got A Lot Of Stuff To Do Yet.

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I'm Always Trying To Tackle Subjects That Tax Me And Make Me Think. That's The Key To Staying Young At Heart. The Brain Has To Be Exercised The Same As The Rest Of The Body.

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