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"There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything."

"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning."

"To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness."

"The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small."

"The first stage of any development is infancy."

"A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed."
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"The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly."

"You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich."

"Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long."

"We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter."

"You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible."

"I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment."

"Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic."

"My father's people... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a great general."
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