James Nesbitt Quotes
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No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
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I love Tom Kenny. And Jill Talley. And Jennifer Aniston, too!
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I don't care about revenues.
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Our leaders must hear us speaking on behalf of our brothers and sisters in South Sudan. If the moral duty to save lives and work toward peace is not compelling enough to drive decision-makers, we must remind them that we care and will hold them accountable.
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My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric.
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I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.
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I'm very drawn to the human condition and the emotional aspects of stories. It's what's not on the page that I get excited about.
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All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.
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Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos.
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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
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I think God has it written down for me, that without training and working hard you will never achieve desired results. All three times I have had to toil my way into the Olympics. Talking about pressure, well that is something you have to learn to deal with in sports.
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It is a myth to think that sometimes creative disagreement doesn't necessarily produce a better result.
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I started doing a half-hour Sunday night talk show on college radio station KUNV. That excited me more than anything I'd ever done. I went through the Yellow Pages to find people who seemed interesting. I'd goof on these people, but they were so excited to be on the radio that they didn't even notice.
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A picture of Christ was hung in the back of a pulpit. When the minister rose to speak one Sunday morning, a little boy asked his mother, 'Mother, who is that man who stands so we can't see Jesus?'
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When a translation is very good, it is fascinating to see how the book changes and yet stays the same. I think 'Out Stealing Horses' sounds more American for Americans than it does in Norway, and still, it is all there, everything that I wrote. It's amazing.
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Initially, terrorism was a certain mixture of politics, economics, and religion. Now, it seems that terrorism is more individual and done to avenge personal grudges. So there are two kinds of terrorism.
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The whole process of making 'Bloody Sunday' was difficult but extraordinary.
