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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Traditionally with debut albums, labels insist on a face, so people know who you are.
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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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Of course some wars may have been necessary or inevitable, but none was ever regarded as holy. For us, a holy war is a contradiction in terms. War dehumanizes, war diminishes, war debases all those who wage it. The Talmud says, 'Talmidei hukhamim marbin shalom baolam' (It is the wise men who will bring about peace). Perhaps, because wise men remember best.
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Lifes light. Life is light. You can make light do anything you want to. Photography means 'light writing'.
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Network marketing itself is always one-on-one. It's also called relationship marketing. You can't recruit en masse through thousands of e-mails.
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Scottish golf is a more public game. It is more reasonably priced and they play faster. It isn't cart golf. The only reason resorts force you into carts is for the money. They are selling off the soul of the game for a few dollars.
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There's nothing wrong in America that can't be fixed by what's right in America.
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The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.
