Jason Robards Quotes
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
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My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.
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All I did my first year at Vogue was Xerox.
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We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.
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I had no desire to crash a man's world.
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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame.
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I like people, and I like listening to them because something that'll happen out of that conversation could be the title or the subject of the song.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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Politics is the womb in which war develops.
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The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?
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It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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I've always supported new music from classic bands, especially if it's good.
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I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
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At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.
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The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
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Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.
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The thing that is always so surprising about plays written in another century is how remarkably elastic they are. When you listen to the way in which Shakespeare attacks relationships, for example, even though the words may start off sounding foreign, in actuality they are so accessible, the motivations so clear, the resonances so contemporary. When you put it in a modern context - we could well be in a place with someone like Gaddafi or Mubarak - it becomes apparent how Richard III resonates with that type of personality, with media and manipulation, alliances and petty jealousies.
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You have to eventually grow up and take control of your life, which is very hard to do.
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I don't want actors reasoning with me about 'motivation' and all that bull.
