James Howell Quotes
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In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.
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I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'
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As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.
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I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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I'm a capitalist. I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they don't.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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I believe in my music.
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In nature there are few sharp lines.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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What I've discovered and try to integrate into my show is when you're up there, and you are loud and more visible, you're setting a tone for how people can behave and how they can feel comfortable behaving.
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Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.
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My job in 'Motive' is to be the rebellious teenager - what boy wouldn't want to be that?
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It is quite hard to relax in London. I always say I'd move somewhere quieter, but I am a bit of a confirmed urbanite now - it crept up on me without me noticing. I always think that I function quite well on my own, unusually so, but then I'm reminded how important people are to me.
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Our prestige abroad, what other peoples think of us, is not of importance only to those Americans who work or travel abroad. The sign 'Yankee go home' does not apply only to our diplomats, foreign-aid specialists, and military personnel who are stationed overseas.
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My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.
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We live in a world of easy friendships - people here for you when it's easy, 'so-sorry-but-I-have-an-errand-to-do-now' when it's not.
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Happy is he that grows wise by other men's harms.
