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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Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.
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The fact that I'm shouting that I have Gangnam style makes people crack up. Imagine if Brad Pitt was singing the song - would it be funny? A twist is important when it comes to writing lyrics.
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I had worked in this New York theatre company for my first eight or nine years out of college, acting and directing there, and I'd begun to write a little bit.
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Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change, and change is the basic law.
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The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables us to control, not society, but ourselves - a much more important thing; it prepares us to live more humanely in the present and to meet rather than to foretell the future.
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Happy is he that grows wise by other men's harms.
