James Purefoy Quotes

Airport security is a particular bugbear. At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man, while I can see that averting terrorism is manifestly important, the measures taken seem, simultaneously, absurd.

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• Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.

  

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• I come from a place where everything about me, even my body language, is saying: I mean you no harm. I smile, I laugh. Basic stuff for most people.

  

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• I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.

  

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• Guys play basketball and get hurt, and that's probably the easiest sport on the planet. We're actually fighting every day. We're wrestling; we're grappling.

  

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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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• Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.

  

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• A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.

  

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• The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't we see so much. I just see it.

  

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• The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.

  

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• A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

  

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• Last time I checked, private nonprofit organizations have a right and a responsibility to be able to set the highest standards and criteria on their own without interference, let alone the level of vicious attacks and coercion that has occurred by Planned Parenthood.

  

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• Airport security is a particular bugbear. At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man, while I can see that averting terrorism is manifestly important, the measures taken seem, simultaneously, absurd.

  

  James Purefoy
  • Important
  • Taken
  • Risk