James Howell Quotes
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'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.
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It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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Lawmakers misrepresent the facts when they call the manufacturing deduction known as Section 199 - passed by Congress in 2004 to spur domestic job growth - a 'subsidy' for oil and gas firms. The truth is that all U.S. manufacturers, from software producers to filmmakers and coffee roasters, are eligible for this deduction.
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My goal in creating Geek & Sundry was to create a community based around web video, and we've accomplished that, especially on our budget.
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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
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I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.
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Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education.
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It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.
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If there is no threat to the lives of the citizens, our tactic will be to not intervene or impede members of the protest in expressing their will freely.
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We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.
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Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there.
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Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
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I think many people can relate to that excruciating pain of love gone wrong. I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.
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I am very different as a parent to new kids. My work changed from being rooted in the sky to being rooted in the earth.
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Food-wise, I'm trying to eat a lot of fruits. I take vitamin pills. For me, that's helpful. Luckily, if I don't go to the gym for two weeks, I'm not feeling it yet, but everybody is warning me, 'Just wait a few more years. You'll feel it.'
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An overstretched military undermines homeland security and our ability to meet threats around the world.
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We had hoped a tablet from Apple would do something new, something we've never seen before. That's not the case. Jobs and his team kept using words like 'breakthrough' and 'magical,' but the iPad is neither.
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Words and works eat not at one table.
