James Earl Jones Quotes
My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.

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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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My emergence has been slow and steady, I would say. I think I've improved every single year. I keep getting better; I keep getting fitter, sharper - and I'm not stopping.
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I just want to do my job.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
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My legs tightened up pretty much, and it was a hard last corner for me.
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But, I nearly forgot, you must close your eyes otherwise you won't see anything.
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The great lovers will always be unhappy, because for them love is great and so they ask of their beloved the same intensity of thought that they have for her – otherwise they feel betrayed.
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Waking up with a bad head in the morning is difficult sometimes.
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My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.