James Nesbitt Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 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.
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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important.
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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.
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I am married.
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But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.
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I'm just first of all looking for a part that's well written and speaks to me.
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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.
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I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.
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Jerry Springer' is just kind of the chubby, redneck version of throwing Christians to the lions.
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The work of creation is never without travail
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Of all the punctuation marks; he told me ellipses were his favorites.
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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.
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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
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I used to have to do readings in church, and it was terrifying. I would never have my glasses. The words are printed so small even Superman would be nervous. And you’re reading from the Bible. It’s not like you can just make something up and improvise. “A reading from the letter of Saint Paul to the Corinthians. Uhhh. Dear Corinthians, … How was your weekend? Sure is hot here. Uh, tell Jesus ‘Hey.’ This is the word of the Lord.
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It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.
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A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.
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People wanted me to be like the Madonna, the white nun, you know, and that's not me. But I'm no villain.
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I love nothing more than going to eat by myself with a newspaper.
