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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I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.
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I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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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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I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done.
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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 just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.
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According to various polls conducted, the single most important issue in last week's election was not the Iraq War, not the War on Terror, not even the economy. It was the cultural war.
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Even if we fail, we are still gaining life experience. The worst thing that could happen is that we come out smarter and more prepared for our next challenge.
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When you're pregnant, you go out and buy every single book; you have this stack of books on your nightstand, but there was nothing that was preparing me for anything even remotely resembling what my life was going to look like.
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The theater has kept me alive, and it's allowed me to work at my craft.
