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You Quotes by James Earl Jones
- You don't build a bond without being present.
- Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine.
- 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…
- So I was determined to use my last two years in college doing something I thought I would enjoy, which was acting. And it was…
- One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.
- Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
- It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family…
- My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to…
- Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.
- I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?
- I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know.
- In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.
- I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don't know how I can ever express my gratitude for that, because my parents would…
- Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle…
- Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know?…
- You cannot be an actor like I am and not have been in some of the worst movies like I have. But I stand before…
- And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the…
- And it was the idea that you can do a play - like a Shakespeare play, or any well-written play, Arthur Miller, whatever - and…
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- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide