James Nesbitt Quotes
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I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.
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I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
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Acting is in your soul.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
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I pride myself on definitely being more than a dunker.
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Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.
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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
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I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
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People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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I sleep a lot on Sunday. It's really great.
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Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing.
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People hang their hopes on you fitting into their CD collection in way that they have made a space for, but I'm playing a longer game than that.
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I've always wanted to be an action figure.
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I think the model that I look at is someone like Jakob Dylan, whose dad is obviously every bit if not more famous than mine. He's a guy who sought to build a career on his own, doing something that's a little bit different than what his father does.
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Love your parents, but don't have them as your mates.
