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James Purefoy

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JAMES LANKFORD For me, the bulimia was about stuffing my emotions. So I stopped suppressing my feelings.
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JAMES GLEICK The fact is, an America's Cup team is more than a sailing team. It's anywhere from sort of 8...
JAMES SPITHILL Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which c...
JAMES MADISON They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.
JAMES STOCKDALE The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash.
JAMES CHILES I think most people read and re-read the things that they have liked. That's certainly true in m...
JAMES LAUGHLIN I have made things for Calvin Klein and other designers, and it's interesting to see the way eac...
JAMES TURRELL I don't consider myself to be incredibly confident, or really lacking in confidence. When you...
JAMES CORDEN The Macau casinos have a wonderful business, it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsew...
JAMES CHANOS I chose to deal with the science of cryptography. Cryptography began in mathematics. Codes were deve...
JAMES SANBORN