James Howell Quotes
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When the world has 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 nuclear plants, can we call that a safe world? I think we need to properly have this debate.
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If you look closely at 'Breaking Bad' and any given episode of 'The X Files,' you will realise the structure is exactly the same.
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I am a big Pink Floyd fan. That is where a lot of the concept lyrics come from.
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I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.
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Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.
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I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.
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I actually love the 'rappers look,' with the saggy pants and oversized clothes. It's very deliberate.
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I hated school, didn't like the discipline.
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I am an Armani and a Dolce & Gabbana kind of a person.
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I wouldn't argue that Mitt Romney is a white supremacist.
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People treat you one way when you're champion, but when you're not the champion, everything changes. People treat you different.
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Although advertised as 'invite only', it has been reported by Forbes Council members and invitees that this 'invite' came with a membership fee.
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There's a real sense of camaraderie with sitcoms.
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I'm a big fan of hip-hop, so it reflects in my approach.
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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
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On great teams - the kind where people trust each other, engage in open conflict, and then commit to decisions - team members have the courage and confidence to confront one another when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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Writing for the theatre is so different to writing for anything else. Because what you write is eventually going to be spoken. That's why I think so many really powerful novelists can't write a play - because they don't understand that it's spoken - that it hits the air. They don't get that.
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Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state.
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I don't think I made it clear where I was mentally when I appeared on 'X Factor.' There was so much pressure and a lot of judging. But I wanted to take a chance on the show because I wanted to make something of myself. 'X Factor' seemed like the only way out.
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I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.
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You seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God.
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The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.
