James Cash Penney Quotes
There has never been a time when a career in the Penney Company was not a challenge that brought out the best in a man.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.
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I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.
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If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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Shoes are important to me because I don't do much with my clothes.
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Van Morrison is probably, at this point in time, my biggest influence as a vocalist. When we were making our last album I had a vinyl copy of 'Veedon Fleece' in the vocal booth in front of me, in the dorky sense. I think there were candles around, which is really tacky, but hey, I needed to channel Van the Man!
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No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part.
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People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
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The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.
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Part of me misses the days when we have four channels in England and we were all talking about everything all the time.
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I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
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We always have relationships in our lives with people we've fallen in love with, who come back into our lives, and we fall in love with them again and go, 'I shouldn't be doing this,' but you can't stop it.
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The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.
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With newspapers cutting foreign bureaus and budgets shrinking for long-form, investigative journalism, documentary filmmakers are often filling a void nowadays in the media landscape with their ability to spend time with their stories and subjects.
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There has never been a time when a career in the Penney Company was not a challenge that brought out the best in a man.