James Nesbitt Quotes
When people say, 'You're perceived as a sex symbol,' I love the idea of that because it's so absurd.
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I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
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An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
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You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.
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I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.
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Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.
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Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I think part of it was he didn't want to be viewed suspiciously by the other people in the White House who rarely go anywhere.
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The thing that I love about acting is the fact that I can help people feel things, know themselves or feel less alone. It's my form of expression, in the same way that someone might paint a picture or sing a song in that you're hoping that it moves somebody outside of their own way of thinking.
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There are very few pop people I'm interested in working with.
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When people say, 'You're perceived as a sex symbol,' I love the idea of that because it's so absurd.
