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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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's kind of a tradition that you get a rookie, put him in the middle, wrap your arms and legs around him, then douse him with everything you can get a hold of - shaving cream, ketchup, mustard, everything. It's kind of like a pie in the face after a guy is successful.
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I had no words for these feelings. And then people started using the word Ms. Suddenly, there was this handle with which I could identify myself and understand why I felt so out of whack with the culture around me.
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If somebody says, 'I am a gay person, and I want to get married,' is their own family going to deny them that? Are our own fellow citizens going to deny them that?
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Life was too short for anything but amusement at the human race.
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Media people should have long noses like an elephant to smell out politicians, mayors, prime ministers and businessmen. We need to know the reality, the good and the bad, not just the appearance.
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A solid sense of self will help a person to lead a full and happy life.
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Happy is he that grows wise by other men's harms.
