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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I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.
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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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I'm a good example of someone who can come to Hollywood and keep their feet on the ground with all the rock stars, all the drama that goes with being here. It's still important to pump your own gas and to be able to vacuum.
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Our band has always been really big on imagery. We've kind of used that as one of our strengths; we tend to do that pretty well.
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The Republican Party, which John McCain led as our nominee in 2008, is going to become irrelevant if we become the party of intolerance and hate. The party founded by Abraham Lincoln was a party that fought slavery and intolerance at every level.
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Queen Victoria did not regard art, letters, or music as in any way springing from national character: they were something quite apart, elegant decorations resembling a scarf or a bracelet, and in no way expressive of the soul of the country.
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Drama asks some uncomfortable questions at times... It goes to pretty dark places.
