James Nesbitt Quotes
It's hard to make a film in Britain. It's hard to raise money. The best stuff that is shot on film in Britain is usually shot on film for television.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when I'm in huge crowds of people. I mean, it's claustrophobic, probably – small spaces and large groups of people, anxiety rises for me.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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But, I swear, they're turning Donna into Annie Hall this season. More ties. More suits. But they're also keeping her really motivated, ya know? Like, wanting to be a rock journalist. Wanting to be the first woman president.
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.
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I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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I can only control what I can control.
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We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write if they don't feel like it. I say this as a competitor. I am not interested in encouraging people who are in competition with me.
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We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.
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Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
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Our Keystone legislation received strong bipartisan support in the Senate. Although it didn't receive the 60 votes necessary for passage, 56 senators - a majority - voted in favor of the bill. Despite President Obama's actively lobbying against the bill, we still won the support of 11 Democrats.
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I had just 15 days to work on my body for the climactic fight of 'Bodyguard.' And I would work on every muscle of my body two/three times a week. I would have developed a superb body if I had three months, but squeezing it into 15 days can be harmful. Also, as you grow older, your metabolic rate slows down.
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I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.
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It's hard to make a film in Britain. It's hard to raise money. The best stuff that is shot on film in Britain is usually shot on film for television.
