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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. "
James Earl Jones
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Farm
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" When you are mute, you become a good listener - it's all one-way. You appreciate the written word. You appreciate the sound. "
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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. "
James Earl Jones
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" 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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" 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 of being a troubadour on the road singing for your supper was very disturbing to him. "
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" Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it. "
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" 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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" People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, actually. "
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" 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? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know. "
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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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" I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights movement was just beginning, and that created a certain energy, a certain rumble, a certain impetus for black actors. "
James Earl Jones
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" 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
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" You don't build a bond without being present. "
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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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" 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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Me
" 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. "
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" Writing can give full meaning to characters and avoid pure stereotype. "
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" More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather. "
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" 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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" You weren't going to the theater to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world. "
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" Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine. "
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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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" 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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" There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond. "
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" One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter. "
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