James Howe Quotes
I can no more separate my serious concerns about the world from my cockeyed way of seeing it than I can keep apart my personal and professional selves.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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I went to Floridita on Wardour Street when I was 18. All I could afford was pumpkin soup and a glass of champagne, but it was worth it.
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People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
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Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.
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I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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I'm a pretty cliche actor in that I hate watching myself on film.
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Pixar is filled with people who don't get rid of their toys.
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I think the price of the food can totally alter the perception of it. If I know something is expensive and the ambience is fancy, the food just invariably tastes a little better - and I feel like I'm getting away with something. But I'm also bored by most 'fancy' food.
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If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
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The producers had seen "In a World..." and that's where they found me out and consequently sought me out for this role [in Man up].
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I can no more separate my serious concerns about the world from my cockeyed way of seeing it than I can keep apart my personal and professional selves.
