James Purefoy Quotes
When you don't take what you have for granted, you constantly try to re-prove yourself to yourself rather than to other people.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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The E.U. has its weaknesses, but it's been pretty good for us, and it's been pretty good for Europe, and it's kept peace.
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Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
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I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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If you want to wear long hair or wear that dress, as long as you're not hurting yourself or anybody else, I say do it. If you want to go out and have a romantic, sexy affair, do it.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.
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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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The thing is, a lot of our vets come home and they feel displaced, and they don't feel like their voice matters, so for me to be a spokesman and have that honor to educate America about who we are and what we are, it's like I'm doing my job.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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Having personally kissed in zero gravity, I was initially amazed by the unexpected lack of attraction, from the sheer perspective of the mass magnetism.
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I don't live in the past. I just live in the enjoyment of the game.
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Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession.
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People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.
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Jeff Wachtel, who was the main reason our show came back, and also got picked up to begin with, is from the New York theater.
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When you don't take what you have for granted, you constantly try to re-prove yourself to yourself rather than to other people.
