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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If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.
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I also like to follow nature's rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we're born at this time, we just live it.
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Out there in the spotlight you're a million miles away.Every ounce of energy you try to give away.As the sweat pours out your body like the music that you play.Later in the evening, as you lie awake in bed.With the echoes from the amplifiers ringin' in your head.You smoke the day's last cigarette, rememberin' what she said.
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I did this thing for HBO called 'Strip Search' with Sidney Lumet, who was one of the best directors I've ever worked with. We actually had a rehearsal period before we shot, which is unusual.
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I didn't work for a year and a half after 'Melvin and Howard' because all I was being offered was silly parts.
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The theater has kept me alive, and it's allowed me to work at my craft.
