James Nesbitt Quotes
Perhaps our imagination needs crime stories to fulfill some craving we have, as a way to assuage a darkness in ourselves.
Quotes to Explore
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I know a lot about Judy Garland. She was born in 1922, and I think she died in '69. When I was little, like, when I was 8, I knew all of her husbands' names.
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I always wanted to do creative things, but I was really interested in entrepreneurship. My family comes from a very entrepreneurial culture, so business was always something I was interested in.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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The 1970s was the decade of developments in the new area of information economics. Search theory, which emphasized the need to gather information, was joined by models that featured asymmetric information, the case in which information differed across individual agents.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine.
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A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.
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I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.
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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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The one thing I do know is that I'm the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.
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Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.
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In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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I admire Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool - these are the teams that are always there fighting.
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The failure is the man who stays down when he falls.
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I have no particular inspiration, but I do find Anushka Sharma, Deepika Padukone and Kangana Ranaut amazing.
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In terms of essays, I would say Oliver Sacks. His breadth of hard knowledge and imagination and empathy seems to constitute the perfect mind to me.
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Perhaps our imagination needs crime stories to fulfill some craving we have, as a way to assuage a darkness in ourselves.
