James Earl Jones Quotes
I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by the history of theater - which we now see from a historical point of view was an explosive time.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack... but there is a gray area between peace and war.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
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We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.
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We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.
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Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.
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Just now, Christianity is in the ascendant. Buddhism and Taoism are decadent; their influence cannot long hold its own. Buddhism has long since passed its meridian; Taoism has only demons, not gods.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say, 'She's my best friend.' That's not a given, it's a process.
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Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.
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I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.
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Science has killed religion. There's no hope for the future with seven billion of us on the planet, and the only thing you can do is to laugh in the face of it all.
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It's hard for me to believe someone could harm a child.
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A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops.
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I'm not confrontational, but if someone challenges, I'm not going to back down.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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Of all the needs that we have right now, more than anything we need a time for love.
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I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by the history of theater - which we now see from a historical point of view was an explosive time.
