Charlton Heston

To the world, you are America. ↗

— Charlton Heston

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Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent. ↗

— Charlton Heston

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You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect. ↗

— Charlton Heston

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You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath... and even into the 70s. ↗

— Charlton Heston

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You cut their money back, for one thing... I go back a long way with the NEA. ↗

— Charlton Heston

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The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in... I came in at a crux in film, which was the end of the studio era and the rise of filmmaking. ↗

— Charlton Heston

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Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in the end. ↗

— Charlton Heston

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