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James Nesbitt Quotes

I feel old and vulnerable. I now realise that I knew nothing and know nothing, but back when my career was beginning, I thought I was a man when, in fact, I was a dewy-eyed boy who'd not seen an avocado or eaten a tomato.

James Nesbitt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: irish
Birth: January 15, 1965

Topics

Beginning Man Thought Feel Career

A day does not go by when I am not in a line at a store or at a McDonald's, and someone will touch my hand, and they will say, 'Thank you.'

Joe Garcia

Day I Am Thank You Someone You Hand

The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake.

Jessica Lange

Home Loneliness Water Me Isolation

He was an amazing father. I clutched my memories of him to my heart for so long, but he's a part of the world.

Jennifer Grant

Father Heart Memories Amazing World

Sugary drinks are blamed for increasing the rates of chronic disease and obesity in America. Yet efforts to reduce their consumption through taxes or other measures have gone nowhere. The beverage industry has spent millions defeating them.

Robert Reich

America Obesity Taxes Gone Industry

The story of Jesus makes no sense to me. God sent his only son. Why could God only have one son and why would he have to die? It's just bad writing, really. And it's really terrible in about the second act.

Trey Parker

Son God Me Writing Story Die

That's possible, and in fact the legislation, the politics should graduate the advantages towards those who have children and give less to those who don't have children.

Rocco Buttiglione

Children Politics Possible Give Fact

I think for comedians, acting is their natural progression. It's all about progression.

Russell Peters

Think Acting Natural Comedians About

I do think that I have a sensitivity to the depictions of maybe all minorities in literature. And I think that the experience of people who look like me is so rarely captured in big, mainstream American fiction that you tend to sort of empathize with any character of color who pops up.

Rumaan Alam

Character Experience People Me Think

One of the great things about history is that it sort of isn't a done deal - ever. The historical texts and the historical evidence that you use is always somehow giving you different answers because you're asking it different questions.

Mary Beard

History Great Giving Questions You

When we bought it, Spiegel was in a difficult situation; it made a loss at that time. We invested in it and then it turned around, and then we bought Eddie Bauer and Newport News.

Michael Otto

Time Loss Situation News Difficult

I wanted to be the kind of woman who would attract a certain kind of man that I could respect. That was my thinking. It had to do with the kind of couple I would be a part of.

Lisa Kudrow

Respect Woman Man Thinking Kind Who

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

Jaron Lanier

Change Technology Think Expensive