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People think that I changed my name. I could've been an actress, a superhero, or a stripper. ↗

— January Jones

#been #changed #could #i #name

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#children #going #inconsistency #know #never

When you get something for nothing, you just haven't been billed for it yet. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#billed #get #haven #just #nothing

One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#book #boring #by the time #developing #finished

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. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#be real #because #both #children #enough

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. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#affirmative #affirmative action #because #being #embittered

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. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#beginning #black #came #certain #civil

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. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#consider #considered #else #going #got

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. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#brilliant #college #day #ended #first

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. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#continued #first #got #high #high school