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"When I was in college, I had three roommates. One was genius, and one was crazy, and one was inconsequential, kept to himself. It was genius who told me about Kingsfield; first guy to tell me all about Kingsfield. He read an article by him in Life or Time or something called "Contracts in Our Daily Lives". Make a long story short, genius took the law school admissions test, but didn't score high enough to get into Harvard. Genius."
"The study of law is something new and unfamiliar to most of you — unlike any other schooling you have ever known before... You teach yourselves the law, but I train your minds. You come in here with a skull full of mush; you leave thinking like a lawyer."
"I know there's a lot of things to say, but it really isn't worth saying them, so please just get out."
"They finally got you, Hart, they sucked all that Midwestern charm right out of you. Look, he's got you scared to death. You're going to pass, because you're the kind the law school wants."
"Timothy Bottoms - James T. Hart"
"Lindsay Wagner - Susan Fields"
"John Houseman - Charles W. Kingsfield Jr."
"Graham Beckel - Franklin Ford III"
"James Naughton - Kevin Brooks"
"Edward Herrmann - Thomas Craig Anderson"
"Craig Richard Nelson - Willis Bell"
"Robert Lydiard - O'Connor"
"Lenny Baker - William Moss"
"David Clennon - Toombs"
"Regina Baff - Asheley Brooks"
"What the hell was that? What's he tippin' his hat at you for? Don't he know we're married? [to Wes] Hey Tattoo! You see this here. That there's a wedding ring. That means we're married! She's mine, okay?"
"Charlie Daniels - Himself"
"[to Pam] Contrary to what you or your daddy think, all cowboys ain't dumb. Some of 'em got smarts real good, like me."
"[at her wedding] My legs are sweatin', momma."
"[to Sissy] You can't expect a man like me to be faithful to any woman."
"John Travolta - Bud Davis"
"Debra Winger - Sissy Davis"
"Scott Glenn - Wes Hightower"
"Barry Corbin - Uncle Bob Davis"
"Brooke Alderson - Aunt Corene Davis"
"James Gammon - Steven Strange"
"Madolyn Smith-Osborne - Pam"
"Cooper Huckabee - Marshall"
"Mickey Gilley - Himself"
"Johnny Lee - Himself"
"Bonnie Raitt - Herself"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.