James Purefoy Quotes
Once you have kids, horror movies become too horrible to watch because you imagine your own children in those situations, so you stop watching them.
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I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
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I have more friends in New York than Paris.
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There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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I always dreamed of going to the Olympics. To be going to the Games in your own country is another thing; to do it as a potential medallist is another thing again.
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Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
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I'm not afraid of change, let's put it that way.
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Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don't.
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I drink a gallon of water a day.
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I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
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Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.
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You make a movie with some people, you become friends over the process of making this movie and then... you go your own way.
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By now, a significant portion of the whole Sherpa economy depends on the spring and fall seasons on Everest.
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Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear picture.
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We all like to think that if we were the victims of domestic abuse we'd up and leave - but it's not always as easy or straightforward as that. Women stay with abusive partners for all kinds of reasons - they love them, they fear them, they have children with them, they believe they can change them or they simply have no where else to go.
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Once you have kids, horror movies become too horrible to watch because you imagine your own children in those situations, so you stop watching them.
