James Purefoy Quotes

Horror of any kind is dependent on a certain amount of insecurity and paranoia from the audience. And it feeds on that and works on that.

James Purefoy

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• I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Love
  • Book
  • Myself

• It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • May
  • Truth
  • Easy

• The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
  • Important
  • House

• One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Period

• It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Why
  • Me
  • Practice

• Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Never
  • Become

• An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Action
  • Ethical
  • Pragmatic

• My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he was doing, and I wanted to do surgery.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Dad
  • Boy
  • Doing

• It's funny, because in 1970 I met the Beatles quite by a chance at a party. It was the Beethoven bicentenary, and I was then also playing the Beethoven Sonatas. And that's all they wanted to hear about - I wanted to talk about them, and all they wanted to talk about was Beethoven.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Funny
  • Party
  • Chance

• Lunch was my favorite part at school.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • School
  • Favorite
  • Lunch

• The best decision I ever made, period, was to get into the music business.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Music
  • Business
  • Best

• In the weeks after 9/11, out of the pain and the fear there arose also grace and gratitude, eruptions of intense kindness that occurred everywhere, a sharp resolve to just be better, bigger, to shed the nonsense, rise to the occasion.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Fear
  • Pain
  • Kindness

• A desire for knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind; and every human being, whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all he has to get knowledge.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Feeling
  • Knowledge

• The romantic intoning, the declaimed clairvoyance Are parts of apotheosis, appropriate And of its nature, the idiom thereof.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Nature
  • Romantic

• We must all begin to question the experts. They have not really been right. No abundance of material goods can compensate for the death of individuality and personal creativity.

  

  Coretta Scott King
  • Death
  • Question
  • Creativity

• I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in front of me.

  

  Kristen Bell
  • Up

• You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.

  

  Janet Suzman
  • Mistake

• There are places that I've always wanted to go. First I went to Africa, and when I was there I realized there were places in Africa I really to wanted to visit: The Congo, West Africa, Mombassa. I wanted to see the deep, dark, outlandish places.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Dark
  • Deep

• It lets us have the chance to use technology in and out of school -- it lets us use it whenever we want.

  

  Kenny Johnson
  • School
  • Technology
  • Chance

• I think judgment is from within. It's not a God judging. Someone who is nasty - they're the one who has to sleep at night.

  

  Jane Siberry
  • God
  • Night
  • Sleep

• Though experience be our only guide in reasoning concerning matters of fact; it must be acknowledged, that this guide is not altogether infallible, but in some cases is apt to lead us into errors.

  

  David Hume
  • Experience

• The moral is obvious: it is that great armaments lead inevitably to war. If there are armaments on one side there must be armaments on other sides. While one nation arms, other nations cannot tempt it to aggression by remaining defenceless...The increase of armaments, that is intended in each nation to produce consciousness of strength, and a sense of security, does not produce these effects. On the contrary, it produces a consciousness of the strength of other nations and a sense of fear. Fear begets suspicion and distrust and evil imaginings of all sorts, till each government feels it would be criminal and a betrayal of its own country not to take every precaution, while every government regards every precaution of every other government as evidence of hostile intent...The enormous growth of armaments in Europe, the sense of insecurity and fear caused by them - it was these that made war inevitable. This, it seems to me, is the truest reading of history, and the lesson that the present should be learning from the past in the interest of future peace, the warning to be handed on to those who come after us.

  

  Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
  • War
  • Government
  • Learned

• Horror of any kind is dependent on a certain amount of insecurity and paranoia from the audience. And it feeds on that and works on that.

  

  James Purefoy
  • Insecurity