James Purefoy Quotes
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
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We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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Way back when I was a junior pastry chef, I'd bake loads of muffins every morning, as many as 120 or so, while operating on autopilot.
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Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.
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It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.
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Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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I'm unemployable in any other capacity.
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Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
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I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures and just had more money.
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That's one thing the musicians don't remember: you don't choose your demographic - they choose you.
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People want to see something authentic. If it's too polished and highly produced, people might not trust it as much. If it's grainy, if it's coming from a webcam, if it's someone standing there and talking their mind or sharing their thoughts, people trust it much more.
Chad Hurley -
Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.
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For a momentThe surrounding utters no sound.Time ceases.The Paradise of Dreams come true.
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The most important in the history of nations and individuals was once the most trivial, and vice versa. The plebeian, who is called today the 'man in the street,' can never see and understand the significance of the hidden seed of things, which in time must develop or die.
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No woman can be completely happy at any one moment in time. They're always anticipating the next thing to argue or complain about.
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The first time I was ever on stage, I was naked at 17. It was very cold!
