Jason Robards Quotes
Once you're on, nobody can say, 'Cut it.' You're out there on your own, and there's always that thrill of a real live audience.
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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From the pop side, people like Usher, and when they first came out, I listened to guys like K-Ci and JoJo; that '90s R&B thing really caught my ear.
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Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.
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From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing.
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
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I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.
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We don't ask the actor playing James Bond what his sexual preference is. So I don't know what it is, really, with trying to out actors who portray gay characters on television. But it is some sort of fascination in society.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
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I have nothing to hide.
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I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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Dream and you shall become.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.
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When I was a child and came with my elders to Galway for their salmon fishing in the river that rushes past the gaol, I used to look with awe at the window where men were hung, and the dark, closed gate.
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Once you're on, nobody can say, 'Cut it.' You're out there on your own, and there's always that thrill of a real live audience.
