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James Earl Jones

"In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia."

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"In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia."

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"Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls."

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"Many Sunnis, who are still stuck in the Saddam era mindset and believe Iraq belongs to them, are trying to prevent a new country from developing at all."

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"Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song."

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"I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality."

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"To be able to detect the outbreak of avian flu anywhere in the world is going to require a partnership of several countries that will share information and samples, but it is important to remember a threat anywhere is a threat everywhere."

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"There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed."

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"If I remember rightly Holland for instance has something like 45, and it's a much smaller country. In comparison we have very few and they are very badly financed."

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"I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players and their styles. So it seems like every record I'll do, I will appropriate these blues styles that I remember."

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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, you know."
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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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"I really think I ambled through a lot of my life, or ambled from one thing to the other."
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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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"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 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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