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The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#adequate #carries #consistent #does #flaw

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

The Millennium Stadium thing was for the Tsunami concert. It was a thing that I think every band in the country would have liked to be a part of at the time that it happened. ↗

— Kelly Jones

#concert #country #every #happened #i

I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical nature to things, so you don't want to start making generalizations about how bad things have become in comparison to the old days. ↗

— Jeffrey Jones

#bad #become #comparison #cyclical #days

My job is to help the functioning of the story, not to draw attention to myself, but to make my characters function within the story, to work for the benefit of the story, to make the whole thing work. ↗

— Jeffrey Jones

#benefit #characters #draw #function #functioning

I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room, on the road, in the plane. ↗

— Kelly Jones

#hits #hotel #hotel room #i #i write

It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music. ↗

— Kelly Jones

#interpret #listener #meanings #music #own

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#had #happened #him #how #i

During my first photo shoot, I was unhappy because they put so much makeup on me and straightened my hair. I've been stubborn ever since. ↗

— Norah Jones

#been #during #ever #first #hair

I feel like all the songs are little scenes, different angles, of the feelings that come around something ending. ↗

— Norah Jones

#around #come #different #different angles #ending