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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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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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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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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Progress is man’s indifference to the lessons of history.
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Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be the innate virtues and splendors furnished him by his creator, infinite regression, drowned in praise!
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Whenever you're talking about meaning, basically... I think a lot of the human experience has to do with trying to understand what things mean, and there's not really any tools to do that unless you're thinking about it in a more spiritual or philosophical realm.
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People don't really listen to albums anymore. They just find good songs.
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And you know, it was like I was breathing my own self back into me to say these word,s to remember that these things existed--the green trees of the eastern woodland at home in North America, their strong and supple branches, sunlight through the trees.
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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.
