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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The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.
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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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Society is no more indulgent than was the God of Genesis.
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A fellow must know where he wants to go, if he is going to get anywhere. It is so easy just to drift along. Some people go through school as if they thought they were doing their families a favor. On a job, they work along in a humdrum way, interested only in their salary check. They don't have a goal. When anyone crosses them up, they take their marbles and walk out. The people who go places and do things make the most of every situation. They are ready for the next thing that comes along on the road to their goal. They know what they want and are willing to go an extra mile.
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Quien busca en su bien un bien mayor, pierde su bien.
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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.
