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I don`t think a fella should be able to sit on his backside and receive welfare. I`d like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.

- John Wayne

Originally, I didn`t like (John Ford)--because of his material: for example, the comic secondary characters, the brutality, the male-female relationships typified by the man`s slapping the woman on the backside. But eventually I came to understand that he had achieved an absolute uniformity of technical expertise. And his technique is the more admirable for being unobtrusive: His camera is invisible; his staging is perfect; he maintains a smoothness of surface in which no one scene is allowed to become more important than any other. Such mastery is possible only after one has made an enormous number of films. Questions of quality aside, John Ford is the Georges Simenon of directors.

- François Truffaut

I was born in a town of 200 people - it`s 300 now, it`s really grown - halfway between Memphis and Nashville, really the backside of nowhere.

- Dixie Carter

Bob told me to get off the rail, which I did, when we came out of the first turn. He settled in real nice down the backside. I had three horses up ahead battling, and while it looked like we were losing some ground around the turn, I think the best part of the track was was three or four lanes off the rail '” exactly where Bob wanted to see this horse.

- John McKee

Seeing Retief`s backside all day today was quite different,

- Michael Campbell

Seeing Retief`s backside all day today was quite different. Obviously, he played great and he was holing all his putts.

- Michael Campbell

I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it`s a pretty worthless endeavor.

- Alan Holt

They tried to rim the puck out of the zone and Sergei made a good play. He found me streaking to the backside. I just tried to lift it over his pad.

- Andy Troszok

I know, I`ve been there and done that. I can`t see the logic of a bloke earning good money here wanting to go to America to get his backside blown off.

- Antti Laaksonen

Around the first turn, I tried to get down, on the backside I was about two or three wide, saw a horse trying to make a move to get past on the outside, so I got back in,

- Arnold Christianson

All too often, ... the goal in the bureaucracy is to cover their own backside rather than to actually make sure the money does good.

- Atsuo Saito