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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I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they think of wine, but that's what it tastes like to me and it hits home.
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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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Songs like 'Learn To Love Again' and 'Rochester' and some of the more gut-wrenching ones deal with the pain of the younger times of your life... trying to make sense of some the stuff we probably all went through.
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The use of force is always an answer to problems. Whether or not it's a satisfactory answer depends on a number of things, not least the personality of the person making the determination. Force isn't an attractive answer, though. I would not be true to myself or to the people I served with in 1970 if I did not make that realization clear.
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The most important thing in a person's life is his faith and how he translates his faith into practical deeds.
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A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.
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It's basically impossible for everybody's justice to prevail or everybody's happiness to triumph, so chaos takes over.
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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.
