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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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"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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"Time does not change us. It just unfolds us."

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"Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better."

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"The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent."

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"When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed."

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"Don't manage - lead change before you have to."

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"Every misfortune is a fortune."

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"No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular."

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"This past year has been something else... it's opened my eyes to many things and many people. It's had its ups and downs and ins and outs. And I believe we've all been able to take something from that and grow in our own imparticular ways. We've over come obstacles, and set in motion opportunities that can change our own individual lives."

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"But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down."

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"The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform."

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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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"It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children."
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James Earl Jones
"Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us."
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James Earl Jones
"And it was the idea that you can do a play - like a Shakespeare play, or any well-written play, Arthur Miller, whatever - and say things you could never imagine saying, never imagine thinking in your own life."
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James Earl Jones
"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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"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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James Earl Jones
"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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James Earl Jones
"I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?"
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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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"So in my junior year, I switched to the drama department."
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