James Nesbitt Quotes
While I've never 'phoned in' a performance, I think I have given some performances where I could have been a bit braver.
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Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
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My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.
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I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.
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When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.
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Just as it got easier to use email, it will be easier to use Bitcoin as people invest in it and become more familiar with it.
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I'm pretty stubborn.
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I consider myself absolutely a character actor, and that's what I want as a career. I don't need to be the lead star or any of that, as long as I'm doing stuff that I'm proud of, really.
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Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
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I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
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If I can utilise anything, I'll utilise it.
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People win 'Oscars', and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head.
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That is the marvel of true art, that no one has yet found a way to commercialize it.
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There is something paradoxical in the fact that by establishing an export market we subject our entire domestic production to the vagaries of that market.
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On any play where there's a scramble of 22 men, blindside hits and unprotected hits on knees occur.
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If I had to compare any of the two, I'd compare the first one in Edmonton, the first one here in New York because it had been so long in New York since we had won. Obviously, being the first time to ever win the cup in Edmonton, they were fairly similar in that regard.
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It's very hard for all of us, when we've committed ourselves to a particular interpretation, to change our minds.
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The Edmund Pettus Bridge - which in 2013 was declared a National Historic Landmark - isn't symbolic of the Civil War in a meaningful way. It is, however, the modern-day battlefield where the voting rights movement was born.
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I believe that Carly Fiorina is a role model to millions of young American women. She started out as a part-time secretary and she ended up a CEO of one of the major corporations in America. I’m proud of her record and so I want everybody to know that Carly Fiorina is a person that I admire and respect.
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A friend of mine, a Hispanic entrepreneur asked me a question sometime ago, he said, 'When is the last time you saw a Hispanic panhandler?' I think it's a great question. I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging.
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We're never going to escape the idea of being young. Which I don't mind myself. I mean, who wants to grow up anyway?
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You have to make sure you have the right people around you to get the right fights, and you're not guaranteed to get the best fights.
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While I've never 'phoned in' a performance, I think I have given some performances where I could have been a bit braver.
