James Nesbitt Quotes
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When you built television sets, you have all this test equipment. And you'd have all these lines and squares on the screen to test it. So it occurred to me that it might be fun for people to control the lines and squares on the screen.
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We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.
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I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no.
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Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.
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If I weren't a performer, I would be still be writing and songwriting. Plus, I also really want to get into producing.
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My life is not that glamorous. I actually live a pretty simple life, really. I just work. I don't have time to do all these glamorous things. I just do my thing, just work.
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I need to decide whether to apply for college or delay it for a couple of years while I pursue some more acting projects. Right now I'm trying to sort things out, so I can make the right choices.
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My aunt in Texas, when she did the hazing things, they had girls swallow oysters. They'd wrap an oyster in dental floss, swallow them, and then pull them back up.
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So much of the physical world has been explored. But the deluge of data I get to investigate really lets me chart new territory. Genetic data from people living today forms an archaeological record of what happened to their ancestors 10,000 years ago.
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I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image left about twins, whose father was telling them how their lives were going to go for the next eight years. I wrote a scene about that, and then another and then another and then another, and after five months I had 732 pages.
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I think getting up every morning is the most amazing thing any of us do. We know what's out there, and yet we keep going.
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Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.
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Metaphysics has as the proper object of its enquiries three ideas only: God, freedom, and immortality.
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My boss treated me like a slave and I felt completely degraded. Then, just once, I did a terrible thing - I peed in his tea! Watching him drink it, my grudges completely dissolved - I never minded making tea for him again.
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If I get to Heaven, which I very much doubt, I will ask of God just one thing, and that is to send Shakespeare back down to earth, and make him sit a University of Madras examination in Shakespeare, just for the pleasure of watching him failing the exam.
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A spark without its fire, a drop without its sea, Without rebirth what more, pray, wouldst thou be?
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I find that the whiter my hair becomes the more ready people are to believe what I say.
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It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
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Phish has never had anything to do with any trends at all in America.
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We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.
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In the immediate postwar era, financial crises in advanced countries were rare events, and before 1970 did not happen at all. Since then they have occurred more often, and 2008 was the most damaging of them all to date. If we have moved back to a regime of regular financial crises - like the one we had from the 1870s to the 1930s - then our economic future will be very different from our recent past.
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It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.
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Phones would not be better if they could be cooler looking, if they could weight less, or if they could have more battery. Phones would be better if we didn't have to carry them around.
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'Spoilt' is a euphemism for 'loved.'
