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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I'm the youngest of five girls, and I don't know about you, but it's really hard to be heard when you have five women. I've always been this loud and over the top as a person because I just want to be heard.
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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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Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.
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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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Turbulence is the beginning of a fruitful process of transformation.
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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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When an idea is idiotic to begin with, its applications never make any sense.
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If we go out there, and we play well and win football games, all the good stuff will come with it. It's not my job to worry about something I can't control.
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If we have nothing to do but service our own pleasure – because society has taught us that's all we're worth and we're exiled from positions of authority from which we could actually shape society – then we just become hedonists. Eventually, despite how great it may look on Saturday night, come Monday morning there's just purposelessness.
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'Spoilt' is a euphemism for 'loved.'
