James Purefoy Quotes

If you read Grimm's fairy tales, they're absolutely terrifying.

James Purefoy

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• Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Doing
  • Look

• 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.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Good
  • Family
  • Father

• I do like my hair. It took a while to come around to the fact that it was quite a unique value point.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Value
  • Hair
  • Unique

• 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.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Time
  • Good
  • Perspective

• Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Up
  • High
  • Success

• I think the reason teenage fiction is so popular with adults is that adults hunger for narrative just as badly as teenagers do.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Think
  • Popular
  • Hunger

• 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.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Up
  • Home
  • Feel

• I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Game
  • Thought
  • Common Sense

• I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Time
  • Found
  • Probability

• After becoming an actor, it's the privacy that I miss.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Actor
  • Becoming
  • Privacy

• 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.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Time
  • Family
  • Happy

• My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.

  

  Karen O
  • Know
  • Moment
  • Step

• I haven't quite got the hang of this retirement thing.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Thing
  • Retirement
  • Got

• 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.

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Myself
  • Voice

• 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.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Good
  • Job

• 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.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Life
  • Song
  • Gratitude

• 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.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Opportunity
  • Education
  • Question

• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Campaign
  • Journalists
  • Violation

• Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Why
  • Blessed

• My mother had a great voice. Not like mine, not like my sister's, not like my son's - a high soprano voice, but like a bird. I mean, really beautiful.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Great
  • Mother
  • High

• I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.

  

  Bruce Sterling

• ‎Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and that's even truer. But beggary, honoured sir, beggary is a vice. In poverty you may still retain your innate nobility of soul, but in beggary--never--no one. For beggary a man is not chased out of human society with a stick, he is swept out with a broom, so as to make it as humiliating as possible; and quite right, too, forasmuch as in beggary as I am ready to be the first to humiliate myself.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Soul
  • Virtue
  • Vice

• I could never overstate the importance of a musician's need to develop his or her ear. Actually, I believe that developing a good 'inner ear' - the art of being able to decipher musical components solely through listening - is the most important element in becoming a good musician.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Art

• If you read Grimm's fairy tales, they're absolutely terrifying.

  

  James Purefoy