James Earl Jones Quotes
It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
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I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.
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Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
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It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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He had never acted in his life, and couldn't play the pin in Pinafore.
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I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands.
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The home studio has taken a bite. People are choosing cheapness over quality. They just don't want to spend the money.
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It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.
