I don’t quite fit in in like a pure dramatic thing, but I still think of myself sometimes as sort of a dramatic actress.
‘A Spy in the House’, the first of Y. S. Lee’s ‘The Agency’ novels, is pure confection, an historical romp through England at the height of The Great Stink that imagines a secret spy ring for women tucked away where few notice but powerful factions clamor for their services.
The type of work I like is pure and simple and profound.
My favorite punk rock song is ‘Linoleum’ by NOFX. That’s pure harmony, the coolest chord changes.
I had no idea that I was ever getting into music. I did not prepare for a music career, and here I’ve found, out of pure luck, that I did have, not only a talent and an ear, but a passion for music. And I have it to this day.
I have given myself dork shivers so many times that I would be an outright liar if I characterized myself as anything other than a pure, utter, and unadulterated dork.
Libertarians are constantly arguing with each other who is the most pure libertarian and who is most ideologically pure.
For me, ‘Far Beyond Driven’ just had an oomph that kicked it over the edge and just pure aggression. And I always appreciated that.
God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.
I love my husband so much. I love our family. I love our dynamic. I’m proud to be in the relationship that I am because it’s based on love. Pure love.
The purpose of developing a methodology for what they call genetic control over seed, is mainly to ensure that F1 hybrids are pure and that every year you have to buy the seed.
None of the atrocities in ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ are pure fiction. Everything Margaret wrote was something that has happened somewhere in the world to human beings.
Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.
Compassion is so pure, I don’t think there is any way to taint it.
So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it’s one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point.
When you talk of being humble, Gurdas Maan is the most humble person. He has a very pure nature.
Whenever I get the sort of fancy pants idea that I’m doing anything other than pure expression things start to go wrong. When I get too premeditated, things start to go wrong. I just shut that part of my brain off.
Inexpensive and forgiving, kosher salt is fantastic for everyday cooking and tastes pure.
Asceticism doesn’t lie in ascetic robes or in walking staff nor in the ashes. Asceticism doesn’t lie in the earring nor in the shaven head nor blowing a conch. Asceticism lies in remaining pure amidst impurities.
Investing is pure.
Robert Osborne either has the best job in the world, or comes very close. As millions of viewers know, Osborne is the resident host of the great Turner Classic Movies (TCM) channel, the most reliable source of pure enchantment in the cable universe.
Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.
I never had problems with injuries as a kid or in the youth team. My injuries started at Chelsea, when I broke my foot during a pre-season game. That was just pure bad luck, but after that, I had some muscular injuries, too, so I had to get to know my body better.
Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
I’ve always worked a lot with silence in my films. It forces the audience to concentrate on what they’re seeing, because silence is pure emotions. It has no logic; it goes straight to the heart.
‘Hamilton’ is one of the best things I’ve ever seen on a stage, and for a guy who loves American history, hip-hop and theater, it was pure bliss.
As soon as we step beyond the established boundaries of pure thermodynamic theory, we enter a trackless region confronting us with obstacles which even the most astute of us are almost at a loss to tackle.
The men and women that I’ve worked with on the police force are some of the most honest, heroic, and pure human beings I’ve ever met.
Kids are my favorite because they’re so pure. They’re really mean sometimes because they’re super honest, but I trust them as a good judge of character. And they’re always so nice to me, so I feel really awesome.
Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
Let us not become so intense in our zeal to do good by winning arguments or by our pure intention in disputing doctrine that we go beyond good sense and manners, thereby promoting contention, or say and do imprudent things, invoke cynicism, or ridicule with flippancy.
I think now I’m being taken a little more seriously. That’s pure conjecture on my part.
When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.
I’m a human being. I’ve got opinions, I’m not always right, I’m not always on time, I don’t always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.
Basically if you burst into my office the walls themselves will flutter as if alive – maybe that’s the reason for all the wings in ‘Pure.’
In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.
I thought of computers as very low class. I thought of myself as a pure mathematician and was interested in partial differential equations and topology and things like that.
I’ve always been so uninterested in playing any kind of archetype of some pure, innocent, virginal woman. I just don’t believe it.
Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn’t know what the words meant.
Reagan never cottoned to dictators. He was pure in this notion in a true belief that democracy was the best solution in the world because it spoke to people’s hopes and dreams and aspirations, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of speech.
No one can truly be prepared for such devastation and pure malevolence, but the United Kingdom can always look to the United States as an ally resolved to stand firm in the war on terrorism.
There will always be something about two men in the ring – a mystique because it’s pure man-to-man competition. Because of the history boxing has and the tradition it holds, boxing will always have a that mystique.
Writing can give full meaning to characters and avoid pure stereotype.
I’ve always been known as a pure scorer, and I’ve always said if I just sat outside and shot 3s and just really focused on that – coming off of screens and spot-up 3s – and shot six or seven 3s a game, I would probably be more known as one of the greatest shooters in NBA history.
If you were approaching the TARP investments from a pure investment standpoint, then there’s no doubt in my mind the taxpayer lost, and probably lost big.
To be honest, my first instinct when I heard about the ‘Greendale’ project was that it was a licensing thing. As I learned more about the project, I saw how pure it was.
Wall Street is broken for sure because it succumbed to greed and corruption and pure speculation with no values.
I’m in my father’s car at age 9 or 10 crying to Leonard Cohen’s ‘Famous Blue Raincoat,’ thinking that you could write nearly a love letter to a man who betrayed you by having an affair with your wife. I was thinking how wonderful and pure music can be for explaining situations.
I had never written anything. And I had never studied writing. So my motives were pure: I had a great story… a courtroom drama that I sort of fictionalized, and that became ‘A Time to Kill.’
Our mind is like a cloudy sky: in essence clear and pure, but overcast by clouds of delusions. Just as the thickest clouds can disperse, so, too, even the heaviest delusions can be removed from our mind.
Politics is a pure meritocracy. That’s why Gordon Brown’s cabinet had two brothers and a married couple in it. They just happened to be the best people around.
I’ll never forget the first time I heard Johann Sebastian Bach’s ‘Partita in E Major’ for violin. It was in a late-1980s television commercial, of all things. As a young violinist at the time, it enchanted me – it was so pure, precise, and unadorned.
As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don’t know it at the time.
The acquisition of an accurate and easy conversation, of some skill in music, and in pure and healthful diversions, are of great benefit in fitting one for social intercourse, in which one of the greatest sources of pleasure is found.
I am pure Filipino; both my parents are Filipino.
It’s pure Black Label. It’s about violence and booze. That’s all it is. There is no plan.
I do know that you have to choose between the logic of reconciliation and the logic of justice. Pure justice leads to new civil war. I prefer the negotiable revolution.
Working with Scorsese was an absolute dream, and one of my favourite ever jobs was ‘Beowulf’ because it was just pure acting. Your imagination explodes as you try to imagine you’re fighting a dragon or whatever.
