James Nesbitt Quotes

Although surgeons know how to deal with bits of the brain, they don't really know how it works.

James Nesbitt

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• I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • House
  • Feeling
  • Drawing

• I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Trust
  • Like
  • Instinct

• My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • People
  • She
  • History

• I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Actor
  • Writer
  • Pretend

• Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • People
  • Time
  • School

• Go to the doctor, get a checkup, and get Pap smears regularly. Cervical cancer is very preventable, and if you catch it early, there are tons of ways to treat it as well.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Cancer
  • Treat
  • Doctor

• Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Political
  • More
  • Capitalism

• I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.

  

  Pat Roberts
  • Business
  • War
  • Hand

• I'm very involved in the writing on every level.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Writing
  • Very
  • Involved

• I don't marry bandmates just to go marrying bandmates.

  

  Valerie June
  • Just
  • Go
  • Marry

• I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's Students Federation.

  

  Jack Ma
  • School
  • High
  • City

• My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • Body

• There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back.

  

  Adam Clymer
  • Know
  • Easy
  • Turn

• Al Qaeda is on the run, partly because the United States is in Afghanistan, pushing on al Qaeda, and working internationally to cut off the flow of funds to al Qaeda. They are having a difficult time. They failed in this endeavor.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Time
  • Difficult
  • Flow

• I get my gossip from 'Nashville' on ABC.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Gossip
  • Nashville
  • ABC

• You could give the best audition ever and not get the role or not get a callback because you just weren't what they were looking for.

  

  Laura Spencer
  • You
  • Best
  • Looking

• We have a lot of talented people in this Congress, and we can avoid a lot of unintended consequences if we just included them.

  

  Dan Webster
  • People
  • Just
  • Consequences

• It's awesome when people respond to your movie and love it.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • People
  • Movie
  • Awesome

• So just to be clear, I'm not going to sign any package that somehow prevents the top rate from going up for folks at the top 2 percent.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Clear
  • Rate

• I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it's lasting me very well.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Brain

• I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I wish I had been a child when the Smurfs came on television.

  

  Kelly Asbury
  • Wish

• Me personally, I side more with punk rock bands. I grew up with The Misfits, The Dead Boys, The Damned, Dropkick Murphys, and early AFI. That was the stuff that really got me into music. Song writing wise, bands like Alkaline Trio were very important to me for beginning to write songs.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Song

• Although surgeons know how to deal with bits of the brain, they don't really know how it works.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Brain