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James Earl Jones

"One day, my youngest uncle - the other one who was first to go to college, Randy - and I were sitting out on the front porch. And he was brilliant. He ended up - he just retired from Boeing Aircraft in Wichita, Kansas."

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"One day, my youngest uncle - the other one who was first to go to college, Randy - and I were sitting out on the front porch. And he was brilliant. He ended up - he just retired from Boeing Aircraft in Wichita, Kansas."

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Donna Grant

"My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman."

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Donna Grant

"One half who graduate from college never read another book."

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Donna Grant

"Anyway, when I was a kid, I dutifully went to the Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College."

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Donna Grant

"The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts."

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Donna Grant

"My favorite NBA team are the houston rockets and favorite college team are the duke blue devils."

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Donna Grant

"I went to college in Mississippi; I'm from Louisiana."

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Donna Grant

"Sounds so silly, but I want to accomplish getting my kids through college."

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Donna Grant

"The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions."

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Donna Grant

"You know, I come from six generations of college graduates."

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Donna Grant

"I started college Pre-Med. That lasted about half a semester."

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James Earl Jones
"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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James Earl Jones
"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."

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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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James Earl Jones
"No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement."

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James Earl Jones
"Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy."

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James Earl Jones
"So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school."

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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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James Earl Jones
"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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James Earl Jones
"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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James Earl Jones
"The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet."

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