James Purefoy Quotes
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
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Today, not to take away from any of the present artists, but music has gotten a little shallow, in my opinion. Everybody's talking about the same thing: sex, money, clothes, cheating... I want to open up not necessarily better conversations, but, in my opinion, more important ones, and touch on things that are actually going on.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.
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An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
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Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'
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The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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Squid don't eat jellyfish, but they eat the things that eat the jellyfish. Jellyfishes put on a lightshow to attract a larger predator. It's caught in the clutches of something like a fish and has no hope for escape unless its lightshow attracts something bigger that will attack their attacker.
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The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
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God bless Dad, he came to every one of my shows. I was bad, and I had horrible stage fright. My dad was so relieved - he'd say, 'You were terrible; this kid is not going to be an actor.' Finally, I did a play and he said, 'Son - you were really good.'
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Can you imagine if Babe Ruth had had Twitter?
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My parents themselves both went to university, and they very much expected me to be an intellectual and go through further education, and it's to kind of their surprise that I became an athlete.
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The single most exciting thing that happened for me was getting to spend some time in the studio with both Marty Stuart and Vince Gill.
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Leftist ideas are a part of the very atmosphere which American youth breathes.
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Somerset is where I call home, and where I feel most myself.
