James Earl Jones Quotes
I was preparing myself for the theater, and... I got a little job here and a job there, but it wasn't going well, and I considered some time before the mid-60s that maybe I should consider something else.
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There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.
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You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'
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I love all things Christmas.
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Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.
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If you're asking me where my heart and where I'm happy is, I love playing with Tom Brady. I love being coached by Bill Belichick.
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When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'
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'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
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I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.
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We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
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I'm saying, Come on, the global warming thing? How did the ice melt during the ice ages? Was the dinosaurs driving SUVs around back then?
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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My tutors at drama school commended and criticised my use of comedy in my acting for a long time at drama school. They said I had a tendency to somehow perform the most tragic of scenes in a slightly flippant way.
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Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.
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There are certainly people who have committed horrific, evil acts in the history of humanity. I don't think Aaron Burr's one of them.
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You see guys in the NFL when you're younger, and you try to model your game after that.
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I was preparing myself for the theater, and... I got a little job here and a job there, but it wasn't going well, and I considered some time before the mid-60s that maybe I should consider something else.
