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 think in some ways, acting and writing are the same. You're getting inside the skin of someone else; you're creating their language and their actions. As a writer, you have to see the whole picture and the structure, and you have to understand every character.
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I never use debit cards. I only use credit cards. This way, if someone does get my account number... and charges $1 million, by federal law, my liability is zero.
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The temple of art is built in words.
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Because there are almost no men in 'Monstress,' we're focused completely on women. It's removed from traditional structures.
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Before you can trust your team to make decisions better than you would have, you need to build their capability to connect the dots.
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Happy is he that grows wise by other men's harms.
