James Earl Jones Quotes
I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
Kara DioGuardi
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
Yo-Yo Ma
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.
Farrah Fawcett
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
Ilyasah Shabazz
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
Zac Brown Band
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I crave attention and adventure.
Eddie Cibrian
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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I'm not the girl next door.
Carine Roitfeld
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
Sam Shepard
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
Usher
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde
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After running for a while, things really start to open up in your body. I felt like I'd tapped into parts of my body that I hadn't before. I let things in the universe flow through me that opened me up in a really cool way.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
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This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.
Ian Hislop
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After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.
Zhang Ziyi
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I love any excuse to come to New York - when it's not February.
K. A. Applegate
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I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone.
Manish Dayal
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As a songwriter, I feel like, just for inspiration and research purposes, I have to listen to everything.
Maren Morris
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A lot of guys I know loved 'Sex and the City.' They'll take it to their grave, but they watched every episode of it.
Allison Williams
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Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let's seek to heal rather than to wound each other.
Barack Obama
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The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.
Carl Hiaasen
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I think it's a reflection of the music business in general, which to me seems very fragmented.
Kathy Valentine
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I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.
James Earl Jones