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There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.
James Earl Jones
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James Earl Jones
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 17
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Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.
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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 European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us.
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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 love doing commercials! Usually, they have enough money that they can take time and photograph it well.
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Don't you try and go through life worried if someone had liked you or not. You best make sure that they are doing right by you.
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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 theater - which we now see from a historical point of view was an explosive time.
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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, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good, and what could be again.
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Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.
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If you expect someone else to guide you, you'll be lost.
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So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school.
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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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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?
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Actors never discuss future plans.
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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.
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Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.
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Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
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Love was just a word to me. Until you came along and gave it meaning.
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