James Howell Quotes
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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It's an evolution. The same team doesn't always dominate, and it goes in cycles.
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.
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I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt.
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Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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Having casual conversations with the likes of Lena Dunham and Kim Kardashian makes me weak in the knees. I have so much respect and admiration for Lena that it doesn't matter how many times I talk to her - I get starstruck.
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'Free State of Jones' went beyond that. It got into how the South wasn't as homogenous as we thought it was - or even the North for that matter, where we like to assume everyone wanted to free the slaves and they were all abolitionists. It actually shows how complex these ideologies were on both sides.
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I think there's a certain level of trust that I have with women. I've always been honest, even when I haven't had good times in my life or my movie bombed or I've had great success. I've owned up to all of it.
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I was really disappointed coming off that Ashes series.
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Respect a man, he will do it the more.
