Nicolas Roeg (Nicolas Jack Roeg) Quotes
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It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered.
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Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.
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I never exercise, and I eat everything.
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Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
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I'm not really the type of person who wears my heart on my sleeve. I keep everything inside.
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What the Greeks and Romans considered myths, we consider fairy tales. We can see how very clearly the myths, which emanated from all cultures, had a huge influence on the development of the modern fairy tale.
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I've been a big Bob Marley fan forever. Forever. Like big, huge. Bob Marley and the Beatles, that's my big, giant music influence. I can listen to them all the time.
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Among physicists and chemists, cold fusion - nuclear fusion at close to room temperature - enjoys a reputation about on par with creationism.
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I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas.
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Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
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Everything is produced by the workers, and the minute they try to get something by their unions they meet all the opposition that can be mustered by those who now get what they produce.
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Men are taught that if we are not the ultimate provider, we are a complete failure. We have to be number one in everything we do. There is nothing more delusional or paralysing than what I have just described.
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Everything I do today is because of what I did when I was 14.
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When I was 14, I would sit up in my room and write till my eyes would bleed.
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Everything's cyclical. Having been raised by actors, I watched their careers, and the challenge is to take time off.
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You cannot underestimate the influence of Shakespeare.
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I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.
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Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.
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Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
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The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.
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I was always the Southern gentleman.
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My husband was in the war of the Crimea. It is terrible the hardships he went through, to be two months without going into a house, under the snow in trenches. And no food to get, maybe a biscuit in the day. And there was enough food there, he said, to feed all Ireland; but bad management, they could not get it.
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We're all influenced by everything unless we're locked in an empty room.
