James Purefoy Quotes
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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.
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For 'Breaking Bad,' people were with Walter White for 99% of that show, even though that guy is a monster.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I firmly believe, only because I've been doing this for so long, every show takes three years. 90% of them don't get three years. It just does. It takes a long time to build a community, build a friendship with your characters. It's hard for people to grasp on and make them care about you.
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The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.
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I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.
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When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or using guns.
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History is more interesting than most people think.
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Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
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Chinese people themselves, they really want change.
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My parents landed in Calgary in December 1974, straight from Nairobi. They were immigrants, like many people coming to build a better life. My mom was five months pregnant with me when they landed.
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God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.
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On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of our lives. We relax so totally that people believe the most ludicrous propositions, and are willing to organize their lives around them.
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Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.
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Back when I was 15 or 16, in Dallas there was a department store called Sanger-Harris. One holiday season, I got a job as a gift wrapper there. The others were all experts who did that job every year, and I was by far the youngest person, who was totally inexperienced. In those days, department stores around Christmastime were a total frenzy.
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I know I can act and it doesn't matter where you come from.
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I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.
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I get excited about room-service menus! I really do.
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I really like playing people who are exciting to watch and who burn brightly.
