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 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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It is not human to be without shame and without desire.
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When you put something down that happened, people often don't believe it; whereas, you can make up anything, and people assume it must have happened to you.
