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"I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends."
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"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."

"To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart."

"He is the best friend who can see and reveal to you what is the best in you."

"We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits."

"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."

"What lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy."

"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace."
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"The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more."

"The thing about Brando was that I'd make these directions, and he'd walk away. He'd heard enough... to get the machine going."

"I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique."

"The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep."

"I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed."

"I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action."

"I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul."
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