This collection holds 385 purely quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Anne Tyler, Gladys Berejiklian and Remo D'souza.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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When I read, I'm purely a reader.

I try and live my life simply and purely.

No film can do well purely on the basis of dance.

I don't approach films purely in context of genre.

I've always said this: Edge is purely a character.

Yet I never want to make a movie purely for the money.

When I began my career, I worked purely for the money.

Fashion somehow, for me, is purely and happily irrational.

My departure from Arsenal was purely for sporting reasons.

Eventually, I'm going to be judged purely on my own merits.

I don't drive for pleasure. It's purely to get from A to B.

I am purely a technocrat and I reject all ideological labels.

I started making films purely based on what I would like to see.

The Righteous Brothers were purely rhythm and blues, black music.

I could cook from quite an early age - purely because I liked it.

I have made decisions based from purely an actor's point of view.

I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.

When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.

I don't go to enough exhibitions, purely because it intimidates me.

Watergate was a third-rate burglary. It was purely domestic in nature.

I have passed on on a lot of roles. I purely and simply do what I like.

From a purely ethnological point of view, I was not a period-born Dada.

The cap that I wear on a particular day depends purely on my dress code.

A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content.

Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.

I accept a character purely based on its merits and not on any other criteria.

The magic in 'Sholay' was purely because of Salim-Javed. I didn't do anything.

I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.

I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.

I'm purely most happy on a film or television set. That's where I feel I am home.

The global threat of 'Big Brother' can actually be conquered purely by technology.

'Blackheart' is purely falling into the electronic world and pushing the envelope.

If it were purely up to me, my kids would probably be vegetarian Catholic Marxists.

Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal.

I don't think anyone is purely evil or purely brilliant, certainly for Prince Charles.

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

I get the 'Daily Mirror,' purely and simply because they put the Racing Post prices in.

It's much less interesting as an actor playing someone who's purely good or purely evil.

I think nostalgia used purely for the sake of emotional reminiscing is extremely boring.

I see magic in conversation and words, and music is purely speaking to others, isn't it?

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

Love it or hate it, motorsport is not purely talent. It never has been and never will be.

The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

The only definition by which America's best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.

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