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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The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance, making alienation all the more intolerable as each convenience promises liberation and turns out to be only one more burden. We are condemned to slavery to the means of liberation.
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I like to push my body to the limits.
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A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.
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Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not? They must be 'liquidated' or melted in the hot fire of exile and labor into the proletarian masses.
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The recent, single-year influx of unaccompanied minors from foreign countries into the United States is a direct result of President Obama's policies of encouraging amnesty and failing to enforce existing immigration laws.
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The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.
