James Purefoy Quotes
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The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
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We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls, e-mails and visits from parents. The law clearly states that the responsibility for giving a sound basic education to our children lies with New York State.
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Christianity has stayed stable, as it must do. The doctrines don't change. The understanding of what it means to walk with God doesn't change. The reality of worship doesn't change, not at heart, anyway. So Christianity appears to be stuck.
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It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation.
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Quality attracts quality. People want to be on a good show.
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The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
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The laptop computer is a workhorse. The tablet is just a display.
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Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
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I've thought that 'Soulmate' in the 'Night World' series would make a really nice TV-movie or just a movie.
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Every night that I put my head on the pillow, I go to sleep knowing that I can do more. I'm working toward perfection. I'm trying to be the best ever.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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I trust work, directors - I don't live in fear. All good experiences have come from trusting the universe. There is no other way to live or love. Otherwise, you create your own prison.
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No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.
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I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't remember a time there wasn't music in the house, so I grew up listening to great songwriters - George Gershwin, Cole Porter - and my grandma was playing opera for me before I was 3.
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I don't have any friends and don't have any intention of making any. People will stab you in the back, mistreat you, talk about me behind your back, steal from you. And they're not really your friends. They're only there because you're a celebrity or because they want to get something from you.
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The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.
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When you play guard, you're not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you're going to block shots.
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'Let God be true but every man a liar' is the language of true faith.
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I hate tests. It's a really lousy way to judge a person's ability.
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If you have a screaming angry director, everyone else will be panicked as well.
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My mother never watched me train in Romania. She wasn't allowed, it just wasn't done back then. My training was paid for by the government. My parents were not at the Olympics with me, either. I never expected them to be.
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I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist.
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When I started acting, I used to read all the reviews.
