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You don't build a bond without being present.
James Earl Jones
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James Earl Jones
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 17
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A man's got to take care of his family. You live in my house, you sleep your behind on my bedclothes, you put my food in your belly because you are my son you are my flesh and blood, not because I like you. It is my duty to take care of you. I owe a responsibility to you.
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If you expect someone else to guide you, you'll be lost.
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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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Writing can give full meaning to characters and avoid pure stereotype.
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There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.
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I consider myself a novice film actor.
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No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.
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Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine.
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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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I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.
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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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I think stutterers are funny. And I know it's rude and politically incorrect to laugh at stutterers. But I think it is okay because I know why they're funny. They make people nervous. People think, when on earth are they going to get the word out, so they start laughing out of their own nervousness.
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Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.
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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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People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, actually.
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If you live in an oppressive society, you've got to be resilient. You can't let each little thing crush you. You have take every encounter and make yourself larger, rather than allow yourself to be diminished by it.
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I love to see actors' work. I love to surf channels late at night and accidentally run into movies I hadn't seen before. It makes me very proud of the profession.
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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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There is a very fine line between love and nausea.
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Love was just a word to me. Until you came along and gave it meaning.
James Earl Jones
