Jason Robards Quotes
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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I never left doo wop.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
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Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.
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I didn't go to school a lot.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.
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I always approach every play based on the cast. When Denzel and I did 'Fences,' I didn't go to rehearsals and say, 'OK, James Earl Jones did a wonderful job in '87. Let me see if you can come close to James Earl Jones.'
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I think wealthy conservatives are busy investing in profit and job creation and enterprise, and wealthy liberals, many of them either from the media industry themselves or from - they recognize the value of communications and are more ready to put money into a less profitable enterprise, namely the media.
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During sex, my girlfriend always wants to talk to me… Just the other night she called me from a hotel.
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If the girl is good looking and talented, and for some reason the film doesn't work, she gets a second chance. But if subsequent films don't work, she gets branded as an 'iron leg.' The whole thing gets negative.
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For me, sitting still is harder than any kind of work.
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The theater has kept me alive, and it's allowed me to work at my craft.
