Nicolas Roeg (Nicolas Jack Roeg) Quotes
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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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There's backlash about everything I do.
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Growing up in Miami, I had all these great, strong influences. You know, being Cuban and the Latin influence, but also the strong hip-hop influence.
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I feel a terrifically painful disturbance in the natural law of things between men and women that must be balanced in the next few thousand years. What has been done in the name of holding up masculine energy as God and feminine energy as subservient has really wiped out everything.
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.
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He looked so sorry and miserable as he pushed me out the door. It stung. It always stings when there's this whole story going on and you're really just a B-plot walk-on who only got a look at three pages of the script.
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We're all influenced by everything unless we're locked in an empty room.
