James Nesbitt Quotes

I love nothing more than going to eat by myself with a newspaper.

James Nesbitt

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• The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Nature
  • Past
  • Purpose

• My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Trying
  • You
  • Stop

• Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

  

  Oscar Hammerstein II
  • Work
  • Peace
  • Victory

• 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.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Independent
  • German
  • Tradition

• I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader interprets the words, and every reader will read a book differently. I love that.

  

  Garth Stein
  • Love
  • Book
  • Reading

• Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Today
  • Struggle
  • Religion

• I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Life
  • Important
  • My Life

• Then, with lots of people doing that without ever looking over their shoulders to see how they were affecting anybody else, it couldn't work, and it didn't work, and it just came to a standstill.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • People
  • Work
  • Looking

• I am married.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Married

• But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Think
  • Problem
  • Realize

• I'm just first of all looking for a part that's well written and speaks to me.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Me
  • Looking
  • Part

• I'm more interested in my life than I am in my career. I don't want to not work. I do enjoy working, but not to the point where that's the only thing I focus on.

  

  Rachel Ticotin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Career

• I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.

  

  T-Pain
  • Me
  • Famous
  • Name

• Jerry Springer' is just kind of the chubby, redneck version of throwing Christians to the lions.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Kind
  • Just
  • Redneck

• The work of creation is never without travail

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Work

• Of all the punctuation marks; he told me ellipses were his favorites.

  

  Patrick Modiano

• Ants are more like the parts of an animal than entities on their own. They are mobile cells, circulating through a dense connective tissue of other ants in a matrix of twigs. The circuits are so intimately interwoven that the anthill meets all the essential criteria of an organism.

  

  Lewis Thomas
  • Animal
  • Matrix

• Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Time
  • Truth

• I'm always home, doing nothing, making beats, and watching movies.

  

  Kaytranada
  • Home

• I play sports - like, I play a little bit of tennis, swimming, like a normal kid. I watch movies.

  

  Josiah Alexander Sila
  • Sports
  • Tennis
  • Swimming

• Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Success
  • Funny
  • Failure

• Wine is not only a drinking: it is sniffing, observing, tasting, or sipping at and... talking about.

  

  Edward VII
  • Drinking
  • Tasting

• I'd love to do a court-room drama. I loved 'Ally McBeal.' That was one of the main reasons I went to law school.

  

  Rebel Wilson
  • School
  • Reason
  • Drama

• I love nothing more than going to eat by myself with a newspaper.

  

  James Nesbitt