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James Earl Jones

"I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing."

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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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"They call it "business" because it does not become successful by a person's "idleness". Go get busy if you want to do business; but be busy for the right reasons!"

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"If anyone rises to power, it's not only because he could, but also because the stars were aligned in his favor. Many with apparent means to take it failed simply because they weren't destined for the honor."

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"Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?"

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"I figure anything over 13 weeks in this business is pretty good."

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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."
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"My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college."
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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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"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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"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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"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 was preparing myself for the theater, and... I got a little job here and a job there, but it wasn't going well, and I considered some time before the mid-60s that maybe I should consider something else."
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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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"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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"I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know."
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