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James Purefoy
"I think I come from a theatrical tradition where, if you look at the great theatrical actors of the British theatre, they took enormous pride in being wildly different from one role to the next. That's the tradition I come from." --
Source : "Exclusive: James Purefoy Talks IRONCLAD and JOHN CARTER". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 2, 2011.
James Purefoy
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“A true initiate will never force anyone who has not reached a certain level of maturity to accept his truth.”
Source : "Initiation Into Hermetics". Book by Franz Bardon, p. 55, 1956.
“Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
“Don't call me son unless you're going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, "Son.")”
“To fear death is the way to live long; to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying.”
“...there must be a sequence to learning, that perseverance and a certain measure of perspiration are indispensable, that individual pleasures must frequently be submerged in the interests of group cohesion, and that learning to be critical and to think conceptually and rigorously do not come easily to the young but are hard-fought victories.”
“Everything in life that’s any fun, as somebody wisely observed, is either immoral, illegal or fattening.”
“...there is no absolute scale of size in nature, and the small may be as important, or more so than the great.”
Source : Oliver Heaviside (2008). “Electromagnetic Theory”, p.519, Cosimo, Inc.