James Nesbitt Quotes
My agent Sue realised after 'Cold Feet' that I could have spent the rest of my life doing similar roles. So she was instrumental in moving me away from that.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
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My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.
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I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
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I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I don't watch any horror films. I get scared very easily.
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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.
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One Hundred Year Starship really is about the idea that is we pursue an extraordinary tomorrow; we'll build a better world today.
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We are questioning more than the philosophy behind our dependence upon limited and limiting systems. We question the power structures that have grown up around such systems.
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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
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When we talk career, we get into an argument. In Hindi films, she is facing the same problems I did. If a K. Balachander hadn't come along to do 'Ek Duuje Ke Liye' with me in Hindi, I wonder what would've happened to me! I would have suffered much worse because Shruti is far more savvy than me.
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I understood that the stories we believe have power over us. They work into our bodies and minds and change us from inside out. What if one day these stories become something stronger, more real, than fairy tales?
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My agent Sue realised after 'Cold Feet' that I could have spent the rest of my life doing similar roles. So she was instrumental in moving me away from that.
