James Nesbitt Quotes
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It is crucial that we develop real awareness of ourselves as citizens of Earth, linked by mutual and indissoluble bonds. When we clearly recognize this reality and ground ourselves in it, we are compelled to take a strict accounting of our way of life.
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
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Combining sounds that are from another universe with the classic songwriting structures never gets old for me.
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I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.
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I do know what my first meal in the next world would be... Spaghetti Aglio e Olio, heavy on everything.
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It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'
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Love prefers twilight to daylight.
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The marathon always starts after 30K. That's where the problems start. You start without any problems, without any pain. All the pain comes after 30K. Sometimes, it's possible to have pain even in the finger.
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People really don't understand what actors do.
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Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture.
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Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.
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A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
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I do understand how hate eats at the soul and how to purge yourself of hate.
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Once you're playing someone, you shouldn't be judging them in any way. That's what being an actor is - it's having empathy for people that are different from yourself. Once you've committed to that person, your responsibility is to tell that story.
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The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.
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The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint.
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Intolerance has become, I think, the reigning ideology of the world today, the intolerance versus intolerance and it's taken on lethal proportions.
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A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.
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He got his mean streak from the gutterGot his kindness from God
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I have always directed my attempts at the figurative representation of objects by way of summary and not very descriptive brushstrokes, diverging greatly from the real objective measurements of things, and this has led many people to talk about childish drawing.. ..this position of seeing them (the objects, fh) without looking at them too much, without focussing more attention on them than any ordinary man would in normal everyday life.
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I don't think I'll be doing a lot more commercials.
