James Earl Jones Quotes
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Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
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When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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My mum has lived in Australia for 22 years now, and we have a rocky relationship. But at the same time it's one I want to maintain. I need her to be my mum. The relationship took a lot of rebuilding.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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You can tell black artists are front and centre when Usher discovers and launches Justin Bieber.
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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.
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Athol Fugard became famous as a playwright, so although 'Tsotsi' the book was written in the '60s, it was only published in the '80s. It was then optioned pretty much every year by producers. I think the problem was that holding onto its period setting made it very hard to get finance.
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I don't believe that someone who sets up an institution should be able to take out the money from the institution or pay dividends to shareholders. I am not saying that institutions should be set up for charity.
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The word processor is a better tool than a quill pen because you can do so much more with it, but on the other hand, what you have to say and how you say it is the ultimate determination.
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The power structures in fashion used to be limited to western Europe and the States. That's changing.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with Billy Joel.
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The government has completed the entire process to do away with interviews for lower rank jobs. There will be no requirement of interview for Group D,C and B non-gazetted posts in central government.
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I'm happy to be told that I am beautiful, but I don't gain anything from that.
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The only antidote to the magic of images is the magic of words.
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I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues.
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I have the kind of personality that I always look ahead than look at what's happened. It does help a lot, especially when you've done badly or you've failed. It's instinctive of me that I look at what's next, I look ahead a lot, and start preparing for that, in victory and in defeat.
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Personally, I am dead against the burning of books.
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I smiled at her, but she was already lost in thought, looking around the library as if it held all the answers to all our problems.
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Drunkenness is deplorably destructive, but her demurer sister Gluttony destroys a hundred to her one.
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Make peace with the fear of defeat... Fear holds you back from putting forth your best performance.
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I consider myself a novice film actor.
