Jason Robards Quotes
I love the theater because it's alive. It's a beginning, a middle and an end, and it begins a life.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
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I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.
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We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern.
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When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.
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Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
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As an overruling providence may succeed our wishes, let us rear an offspring in every respect worthy to fill the most illustrious stations of their predecessors.
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A Mathematician is someone who can take a cup of coffee and turn it into a theory.
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A deadly sins addendum is long overdue. Life has changed since Pope Gregory the Great scribbled his initial list in the sixth century.
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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.
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Faith is the 'yes' of the heart, a conviction on which one stakes one's life.
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I love the theater because it's alive. It's a beginning, a middle and an end, and it begins a life.
