James Nesbitt Quotes
My mother taught me what it is to have a sense of humour; my dad, who was a headmaster, everything you need to know about hard work. My dad is the most decent man you could come across.
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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There's nothing fun about 30 people standing around watching you, like, pretend to pleasure someone. Nothing enjoyable about it, believe me.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.
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I can't touch Simon anymore.
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I'm into menswear slacks that are comfortable.
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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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When mom and dad were at the height of their careers, and things were super-crazy, and they couldn't leave their houses, there wasn't social media. It was all about autographs. Now, everyone's the press. I feel fame is perforated: it can be glorious, but it can completely destroy a human, too.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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When I feel like work and life are both going well, I feel like I can be fully present at both. I think the reminder to me is that both are super important, and I need to be able to feel like I can experience both in the way that makes me happiest. If I'm not happy in one or the other, it really affects the other side.
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Not only the Archivist alone but all who work for NARA are designated custodians of America's national memory.
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You know how exasperated you can be when you're the mother of five young boys.
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Even when you've made mistakes in life, you can still contribute and pick up the stuff and move on.
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I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of the house and hide from the children.
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My mother taught me what it is to have a sense of humour; my dad, who was a headmaster, everything you need to know about hard work. My dad is the most decent man you could come across.
