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When I read great literature,...

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

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So I was determined to use my...

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 probably because there was girls over in the drama school too, you know?

James Earl Jones 80 quotes

Reading was a big thing, yes....

Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.

James Earl Jones 80 quotes

My grandmother had the most d...

My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.

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So in my sophomore year, I to...

So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I should be most interested in - and if I could hack, as we called it, a senior class, I would continue. I didn't hack the senior class.

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The goal wasn't to be a milli...

The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was.

James Earl Jones 80 quotes

The world is filled with viol...

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose.

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I think the extent to which I...

I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas.

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I was preparing myself for th...

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 considered some time before the mid-60s that maybe I should consider something else.

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There is not enough magic in ...

There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.

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I consider myself a novice fi...

I consider myself a novice film actor.

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And nothing embittered me, wh...

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 lack of affirmative action, you know.

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When I was in New York after ...

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 dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.

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The arts have always been an i...

The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet.

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It has to be real, and I think...

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 is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.

James Earl Jones 80 quotes

And nothing embittered me, whi...

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 lack of affirmative action, you know.

James Earl Jones 80 quotes

Acting is not about anything r...

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

James Earl Jones 80 quotes

I don't ever want to be a sent...

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.

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My youngest uncle Randy and I ...

My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college.

James Earl Jones 80 quotes

Reading was a big thing, yes. ...

Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.

James Earl Jones 80 quotes

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