James Purefoy Quotes
I really like playing people who are exciting to watch and who burn brightly.
James Purefoy
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Every time - well, not every time, but in celebration of a great review or a great accolade, I take the team of Daniel to Katz's Deli for lunch. We take the trip on the subway, we were like 40 or 50 people, and we go in the back room and have a pastrami sandwich.
Daniel Boulud
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For 'Breaking Bad,' people were with Walter White for 99% of that show, even though that guy is a monster.
Adam McKay
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
G. Willow Wilson
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In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.
Zac Efron
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The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.
Jack Germond
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I often have said to people that there are really two cities in the country where the outlook is always forward-looking - there is never really a backward-looking tendency. My banking work has taken me out to Palo Alto, what is commonly called Silicon Valley. And you sense out there is always a forward-looking outlook. And New York City.
Harold Ford, Jr.
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To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
Frank Herbert
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I've become wary of interviews in which you're forced to go back over the reasons why you made certain decisions. You tend to rationalize what you've done, to intellectually review a process that is often intuitive.
Peter Weir
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What we take anything to be profoundly affects how we go about describing it, and how we describe something profoundly affects how we go about explaining, accounting for, or understanding what is what we are, in a sense, defining, by our description.
R. D. Laing
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Eating American-style, you put the knife down and clang. Continental is silent and efficient.
Letitia Baldrige
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Copying other people’s successes, when combined with individual learning, is dramatically better than individual learning alone.
Alex Pentland
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I really like playing people who are exciting to watch and who burn brightly.
James Purefoy
