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Love was just a word to me. Until you came along and gave it meaning.
James Earl Jones
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James Earl Jones
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 17
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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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Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.
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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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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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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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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 have been a mess.
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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 really think I ambled through a lot of my life, or ambled from one thing to the other.
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