- You seem to be a man accustomed to giving orders.
- Well, I guess it is a bad habit of mine.

— J.B. Books (John Wayne), Bond Rogers (Lauren Bacall)

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6 seconds sound clip from the The Shootist movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:15:06.464 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Have you a barn?

- No, we don't.

- Boy, take my horse over to...

- My name's Gillom. It's not boy. It's Gillom Rogers, and I don't like being ordered around.

- Well, that's fair enough, Gillom Rogers.

- Would you be so kind as to take Old Dollar over to the livery stable, and see that he gets a double order of oats?

- O.K.

- You seem to be a man accustomed to giving orders.

- Well, I guess it is a bad habit of mine.

- I didn't get your name.

- I didn't give it. Is it so important?

- For anyone living under my roof, it is.

- Well, all right. It's, uh... Hickok, William Hickok.

- Where do you hail from, Mr. Hickok?

- Abilene, Kansas.

- And what do you do there?

- I'm a U.S. Marshal.

- Oh, that's nice.

- No, it isn't.

[...]

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