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James Purefoy Quotes

Hospitals are very extreme places - you can be in a maternity room one minute, and by someone's bedside as they're dying the next.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: english
Birth: June 3, 1964

Topics

Someone You Places Dying Next Room

Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call this arteriosclerosis; historians see decline of empire.

Aging Body Blood Flow See Empire

I sometimes think that I might be slightly autistic. There might be a syndrome that hasn't been named. I don't seem to see the world in the same way that most people I know see it. They don't seem to be baffled by it.

People World Think Know Sometimes

Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.

Writing Narrative Dramatic Southern

I used to play in rock bands. Then I went to the first school of electronic music in the world. It was in Paris headed by one of the most important people involved in electronic music.

Jean-Michel Jarre

Music School People World Play Rock

Alliances and partnerships produce stability when they reflect realities and interests.

Partnerships Reflect Stability

In 'Mirror Mirror,' I played Prince Charming's side kick Renbock, who was pretty dandy, hapless and innocent. Other than that I've tended to play the complete opposite! I've played gritty, hard characters, generally tough people.

Mirror People Tough Innocent Play

I know that one day all transgender individuals will have the freedom to be who they are, no matter what. And we won't have to face the cruel judgments of society. We can just live our lives and be treated and respected like everyone else.

Live Freedom Day Society Face Know

I've learned that being a superhero isn't all glitz and glamour. We think if we have a special power, our problem will go away. It's just a new set of problems. Being a superhero alienates you and separates you from humanity. As Spiderman famously said, 'With great power comes great responsibility.'

Power Great Responsibility Think You

The reason why Hollywood cranks out so many sequels and adaptations is because the audience is so overwhelmed with choices, the only way to get them in the theater is to give them something familiar.

Choices Hollywood Why Way Reason

I learned a long time ago to be honest when I'm talking to other artists. Up-and-coming artists used to come and say something, they would have a demo reel, and I would try to tell them the truth. I don't go up and say something unless I really feel it.

Truth Time Feel Talking Long Go

You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he'd be back with the actresses and dating them and that he wasn't serious about me at all. So I had him saying one thing to me and my parents telling me something else.

Priscilla Presley

Father Mother Dating Parents Me You

In Ronald Reagan's case, he always bore with him this extraordinary ability to radiate confidence, optimism, clarity, a blitheness of spirit, in what other people saw as chaos. And after the 1970s, that was catnip.

Confidence Optimism People Chaos Him

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