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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I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
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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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Maybe they'll start making serialized movies. I watched the first couple seasons of '24' and it's really fun. I bought the DVD and watched it over a month or so and it's great. It's like reading a novel. It has a lot of possibilities that are more difficult to accomplish with a film.
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You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.
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Next time you open the paper, and you see an intellectual property decision, a telecoms decision, it's not about something small and technical. It is about the future of the freedom to be as social beings with each other, and the way information, knowledge and culture will be produced.
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The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.
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I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.
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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.
