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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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'Nothing to lose' means I can go out there and try to play like I'm playing, without pressure, without nothing.
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Yeah, it's a lot harder to find a musical partner than a love partner.
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When I first thought of the idea for 'Sweet Valley High,' I loved the idea of high school as microcosm of the real world. And what I really liked was how it moved things on from 'Sleeping Beauty'-esque romance novels where the girl had to wait for the hero. This would be girl-driven, very different, I decided - and indeed it is.
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It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.
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The ball was literally glued to the back of his foot - into the back of the net.
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Nature can afford to be prodigal in everything, the artist must be frugal down to the last detail. Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.
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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.
