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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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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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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Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we - since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm's way.
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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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If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience.
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Fact doesn't have to be plausible; it just has to be fact.
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I always have my setlist planned out, but the best moments are when the energy of the crowd just gets your mind working and you are able to come up with new tags for jokes and just riff off things in the room.
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Bushido is realised in the presence of death. In the case of having to choose between life and death you should choose death. There is no other reasoning.
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If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I'm trying to teach my daughter Chloe at an early age about investing and money so she's not afraid of it.
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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.
