James Earl Jones Quotes

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• There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.
• Ray, people will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why…
• Love was just a word to me. Until you came along and gave it meaning.
• You don't build a bond without being present.
• Just so you know, there's a space that only you can fill. Just so you know, I loved you then, I guess I always will.
• The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard,…
• Love is just love, it can never be explained.
• When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved…
• The one constant in life is baseball
• Once you begin to explain or excuse...
• You weren't going to the theatre to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of…
• Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine.
• In our resolve to build a better world... we seek to summon what Abraham Lincoln called the better angels of our nature.
• I do not know if it is true that all actors want to direct and all directors want to act, but in 1972 I tried…
• I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights movement was just…
• We used to be "shiftless and lazy," now we're "fearsome and awesome." I think the black man should take pride in that.
• I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by the history of…
• I was preparing myself for the theater, and... I got a little job here and a job there, but it wasn't going well, and I…
• You sang in church, you know, and you didn't act at all. You tried not to act, you tried to tell the truth. The idea…
• We children learned responsibility automatically.

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