James Nesbitt Quotes
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I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.
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One shouldn't know the future.
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I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.
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After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
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The mid-day meal is a well-intentioned scheme and has to be implemented effectively.
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The Bill of Rights isn't some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, more prosperous, and happier. By forsaking it, America has become no better than any other country in the world.
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I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.
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You have to think hard with a tattoo. 'What will I love for the rest of my life?'
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It pays to cultivate popularity. It doubles success possibilities, develops manhood, and builds up character.
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I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.
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I used to hate old-timers who didn't praise the younger wrestlers, but you've got to pass the torch sometime. If you're old, that torch gets too heavy for you and you can't carry it, so it won't do you any good.
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A European army must protect the continent from two sides, from the east and from the south, in terms of protecting against terrorism and migration.
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I was always running off to the city, whether it was Philly or New York, going somewhere where there was something more for me.
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I think sometimes writers can get themselves into trouble trying to exert a totally controlled and super-knowing tone. This kind of knowingness is not the most promising tone to be sustained throughout a novel, to have a young woman who understands everybody and is always reading a room perfectly.
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Most actors hate watching their own films because all you can see is the glaring mistakes, your own tricks and ticks.
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The width of a line may present the idea of infinity. An epigram may contain a world. In the same way, a small picture format may be much more living, much more leavening, stirring, awakening, than square yards of wall space.
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I think that I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell you right now that I’m gonna think I’m a better political director than my political director.
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While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time to admit our mistake in Iraq and begin to bring our troops home with honor.
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So, I didn't get moved up because of celebrity status or anything like that. I got in line, and I passed the test. And they realized that I was sick enough, and as soon as the liver became available, I got one.
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Obviously sex and nudity sells, but that's what people go to cable for but that's not going to happen on network daytime television... so I think it really is always going to come down to story. How do you make a story interesting enough so people will tune in? That's always going to be it.
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General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to represent the United States in dealing with allies and to act within the circle of people who must make decisions in Afghanistan.
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It's easier to act in your own accent.
