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James Earl Jones

"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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Donna Grant

"You can change a life by touching someone with simple, beautiful, kind, words and a loving smile."

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"We have to change our thoughts before things can change."

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"Anyway, it's like with bikes,' said the first speaker authoritatively. 'I thought I was going to get this bike with seven gears and one of them razorblade saddles and purple paint and everything, and they gave me this light blue one. With a basket. A girl's bike.''Well. You're a girl,' said one of the others.'That's sexism, that is. Going around giving people girly presents just because they're a girl."

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"You may turn every house in your neighborhood into a charity center, you may fill the land with soup-kitchens, but the misery of humans will still continue to exist until the character of humanity changes."

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"When you meet someone, and you find that they are prejudiced against your kind, it might be your chance, not to confirm, but to be the one to finally change their mind."

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"Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again."

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Donna Grant

"Every living object has to change every moment just to live."

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"Change is the rule. Permanence is an illusion."

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Donna Grant

"Losing your job gives you the opportunity to make your life count."

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"If you don't like the solution, change the problem."

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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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"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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"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
"My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college."

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"You don't build a bond without being present."

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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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"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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