"I don't think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn't sound like the kind of thing I'd do."
-Tommy Lee Jones
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"I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival.“
-Tommy Lee Jones
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"I want to make movies about my country from my point of view."
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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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"All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly."
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"What appeals to me? There are things, points of view, uses of the language, habits of dress, ways of thought and believing that came to me from my grandparents and came to them from theirs. Things that are of good use in any situation, no matter what the future may hold."
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"If you want to know about my politics, the only way to do that is to look at my work."
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"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens."
-J. R. R. Tolkien
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"I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels."
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"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living."
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"Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death."
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"Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable."
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"Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals."
-Albert Schweitzer
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