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Quotes About Western

I was in love with this character of Ray Krebbs. I wanted the part badly. I had done several Western films in my career at that point and there wasn't much opportunity then to play Western roles on television at that time.
~ Steve Kanaly
When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.
~ Richard Morris
I was familiar with that and 'Rio Bravo.' 'Rio Bravo' was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time.
~ John Leguizamo
You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.
~ Majel Barrett
The Western genre is certainly something with which I'm familiar.
~ Keith Carradine
I'm just ah, actually developing a tv show for HBO, and I'm directing a film this summer, and actually I'm doing some live shows out in western Canada.
~ Bruce McCulloch
We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.
~ Richard O'Brien
The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.
~ Barbara Amiel
The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply.
~ Kelly Miller
So, essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.
~ Terry Riley
I had been raised on country and western in Missouri. But gospel was great.
~ Steve Cropper
Of course my family and friends are incredibly valuable to me. They keep me sane, they teach me things and I love spending time with them. I think that ranking what you value is a sort of western and linear way of looking at things.
~ Julia Stiles
I like the Western genre, I think it's uniquely American.
~ Keith Carradine
The years between 1800 and 1825 were distinguished, so far as our domestic development was concerned, by the growth of the Western pioneer Democracy in power and self-consciousness.
~ Herbert Croly
The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel, and the way things develop sort of slowly - it's almost the antithetical of what's currently going on in the movies, you know.
~ Lawrence Kasdan
A terrorist nuclear detonation in a western city would destroy all economic confidence.
~ John Bruton
My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven.
~ Eli Wallach
The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.
~ Stanislav Grof
The Western, when I do one, will be one long, continuous story.
~ Sergio Aragones
Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are.
~ Richard Gere
For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.
~ Arthur Peacocke
Yes, I think India's economy always has been a mixed economy, and by Western standards we are much more of a market economy than a public sector-driven economy.
~ Manmohan Singh
I'm drawn to a good story, really, as I hope most people are. For me, it's the story that's going to stay with you eventually, not necessarily the genre. I go to watch a film because of the story, not because it was a Western or a comedy.
~ Ryan Kwanten
Our typical Western diet is full of inflammatory fats - saturated fats, trans fats, too many omega-6, inflammatory, processed vegetable oils like soy and corn oils. These increase IGF-1 and stimulate pimple follicles.
~ Mark Hyman