James Earl Jones Quotes
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
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When you look at the roles I've done and the roles coming up, they're all strong. I guess I'm more drawn to that than that kind of submissive role females can be categorised as.
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Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
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I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
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When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
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When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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If you're into a leather-jacketed crime fighter and his artificially intelligent robotic supercar, tune into 'The Good Wife.' If, on the other hand, you prefer the misadventures of a freelance itinerant trucker and his simian sidekick, check out 'The Walking Dead.' Or DVR them both and go talk to your family.
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I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.
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What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in New Orleans and Kansas City, under the radar.
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My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.
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The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.
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A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.
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I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.
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For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.
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In '96, I was in a very specific place with my own music - I was only listening to beats. You would come to my house, and I would just play beats all day.
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You never know what will happen. There is a thing called zeitgeist. You have to hit it.
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We are now living in a post-Roosevelt, post-Reagan universe. What comes next will not be post-partisan, because faction is an intrinsic human impulse.
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Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.
