James Nesbitt Quotes
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
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Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you have means and opportunity, you have to make different choices to protect what you have.
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Studies by several different researchers have shown that the number of lies we're told each day is anywhere from 20 - 200. To many, that will seem shockingly high. Yet it isn't, in light of humans being ill-suited to detect lies. The average human can detect a lie only 54% of the time.
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In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.
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I take nothing away from my existence in the 'hood, because it sharpened my instincts. We had a different way of living that developed our survival instincts, and I use those to this day when I make films. You can't buy that.
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I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
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I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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I'm very conscious of... I don't feel like a star.
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A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
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Be realistic and truthful - and tell Hong Kong businessmen honestly that they should go for long-term investments since it is unlikely money can be made in the short haul.
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When it comes to photo shoots, there was a clear moment for me when I thought, 'I'm going to have to enjoy this because it's going to be a part of what I do.'
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I lived in France during the '60s. I was there from the early '60s until 1970, so my view of the '60s is more global. It was a time of tremendous transition, not only for America but for the whole world.
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I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
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I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of it, in pieces, to preserve its essential value has some sort of epic grandeur.
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It is the state of mind of the person wielding the instrument that determines to what end it will be put.
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Drama asks some uncomfortable questions at times... It goes to pretty dark places.
