James Purefoy Quotes
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.
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I do like my hair. It took a while to come around to the fact that it was quite a unique value point.
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I allegedly am an outsider writer, so I write from the perspective of somebody who doesn't completely fit in. But at the same time, I can state the fact that I don't know of any good writer who is not an outsider writer.
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Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.
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I think the reason teenage fiction is so popular with adults is that adults hunger for narrative just as badly as teenagers do.
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I grew up really close to Alabama, about 10 minutes from the Alabama line. We'd make trips to Alabama, and I feel at home there.
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I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.
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I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking.
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After becoming an actor, it's the privacy that I miss.
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I guess I'm happy that I'm getting the attention. Otherwise, I'd just be playing in a local bar in front of my family members, and I'm sure they'd get sick of that in no time.
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My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.
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I haven't quite got the hang of this retirement thing.
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I never call myself a singer, ever. I never will. I've always been really embarrassed about my voice. I've never been confident about it. I think it's a little bit better now than when I first started. There are people I admire who are genuinely brilliant singers and I know the difference between what they can do and what I can do.
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It's concerning to me when people look at the course of education as just a means for getting a job four years later. If you're just doing this because it is going to lead to a 'good job,' you're better off doing something you're genuinely interested in.
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The one hit song that I have tremendous gratitude for is Boots, because it has a life of its own. It's like being identified with a brand name.
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So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it.
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It had never occurred to us that the Kremlin's new anti-booze campaign would apply to journalists. Now, that's a human-rights violation.
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As a bounty hunter, I have to dress the part. If I came to the door and looked like Carrot Top, you'd laugh.
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We always thought we wanted to do a show that you could both laugh and cry in thirty minutes, and I don't know that there are that many comedies that try for that.
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It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
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They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you're looking at him. Elvis isn't dead; he just changed color.
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True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality; that is to say, the morality of the judgment, which has no rules, makes light of the morality of the intellect.... To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
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If you read Grimm's fairy tales, they're absolutely terrifying.
