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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And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.
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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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I don't have a TV or watch movies. I don't like to be broadcast to, I want to participate.
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I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth.
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I love playing bad. But my whole thing is usually villains that don't know that they're evil.
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Part of why history is so important in my life is because it brings you an awareness that everything isn't new. It gives context to what's happening right now. History is cyclical but circumstances and technology change. So when social justice topics come up, they're not new. They're just being covered more. We have more ways to record it now.
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The best place to find material is in real life. I've always maintained that it's not until the mid-20s that you have enough of a life to draw from. There's nothing better for a comic than to go through some bad stuff - and some good stuff, like getting married.
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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.
