James Purefoy Quotes
There are only a few TV networks that really invest in production in the way that I think they should. HBO, obviously, is one of them.
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You either get better, or you don't progress.
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I have new ideas every day, and I always want to take on new challenges.
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A lot of my friends send me Snapchats of when they're in the club, and they're like, 'It's your song!'
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Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.
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I want to do stories that inspire people.
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I like everything from Miu Miu. Dolce & Gabbana cocktail dresses are a party essential; they're so flattering.
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The Small Business Lending Fund was cleverly named by its authors last Congress. Since its implementation, however, it would appear a more appropriate name would be the Bailed Out Bank Refinancing Fund.
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Art is my life and my life is art.
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Some shows, like PPG, tape in a group session, which is always more fun because you can play off each other.
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I got a job as an assistant film editor, which lasted for a few years, but I found writing incredibly difficult, and I thought, 'How am I going to make a film if I can't write?' I didn't really comprehend that someone else would do that bit.
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You don't feel as self-conscious if your clothes fit.
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Two gold medals and two silver, I don't think is that bad... I think I still did a pretty good job.
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It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet.
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I started off as a model and struggled for some time until I got a break as an actress. I was too stubborn to let go and was sure I was in the right place at the right time. I just fought and I think that's how I am where I am today.
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Being up on something is a way of dismissing it. To espouse any point of view is a danger - it might leave us stuck with last year's cause. Prized for their novelty alone, ideas, gimmicks, trends become equivalent, interchangeable.
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Trying to command life without studying one's own mind is like trying to play the piano without studying music.
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The study of nature is of no significance, for painting is a conventional art, and it is infinitely more worthwhile to learn to draw after w:Holbein.
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A vice in common can be the ground of a friendship but not a virtue in common. X and Y may be friends because they are both drunkards or womanizers but, if they are both sober and chaste, they are friends for some other reason.
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The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
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I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is instead of going to the gym.
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Sci-fi and fantasy used to be a TV staple throughout my childhood. Then it just stopped dead. It was seen as culty, a minority interest.
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Being a conglomerate, each of our businesses has a different challenge; business landscape is different for each business. It makes it challenging as well as exciting.
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Of all the plays in baseball, stealing home is by far the most exciting.
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There are only a few TV networks that really invest in production in the way that I think they should. HBO, obviously, is one of them.
