James Nesbitt Quotes

Love your parents, but don't have them as your mates.

James Nesbitt

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• I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Green
  • Eat
  • Vegetables

• 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?'

  

  Ralph Brown
  • People
  • Man
  • Star

• 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.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Writing
  • Band
  • Best

• 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.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Children
  • Fear
  • Tomorrow

• Acting is in your soul.

  

  LaTanya Richardson
  • Soul
  • Acting
  • Your

• Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Style
  • Decision

• Spontaneity is what travel is all about.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Travel
  • About
  • Spontaneity

• 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.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Relationship
  • Desire
  • Effort

• 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?

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Work
  • Why

• I pride myself on definitely being more than a dunker.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Myself
  • Pride
  • Being

• 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.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • People
  • Good
  • Live

• It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Marriage
  • Write
  • How

• People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • People
  • Need
  • Seem

• I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Positive
  • Optimistic

• 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.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Up
  • Today
  • Parents

• 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.

  

  Adam Pally
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• 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.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Live
  • Trying

• I love to learn; I really do. We'd study something in class, and I'd take it outside of class and become, like, obsessive and just research everything.

  

  Mary-Kate Olsen
  • Study

• Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing.

  

  Bill Copeland
  • Work
  • Women
  • Done

• It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down.It is not the houses. It is the spaces between the houses.It is not the streets that exist. It is the streets that no longer exist.

  

  James Fenton

• I'd never really thought past the whole dying-for-the-sake-of-the-world part of things. When you're alive, you don't dwell on how you're going to spend your time once you're dead. You just figure you're gone, and the rest will pretty much take care of itself.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Time
  • World
  • Pretty

• My parents have Google Alerts on me. So they'll often times send me an e-mail and be like, 'Hey did you know this?' And then I'll be like, 'Well, it is, like, my life. So yes, I did know that.' Or, 'That's not even true. I don't know where you read that.' I have Googled myself, yes. But my parents really have Google Alerts on me.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • Life
  • True
  • Parents

• Love your parents, but don't have them as your mates.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Parents