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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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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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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The sound system influence is undeniable in hip-hop, in jungle, drum and bass, now EDM.
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I'm a huge Bob Hope fan, up until about the late '50s. I've seen so many of his movies up until then, and they're a big influence on me and a big influence on Woody Allen, who is basically just ripping off Bob Hope for his first five or six movies.
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When you do a remix, obviously you get a beautiful melody, you get the beautiful vocals - everything is already set up. You already have a base, which means all I gotta to do is create the music behind, 'cuz it's already beautiful.
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Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat. Women often have to flee from the only homes they have ever known. Women are often the refugees from conflict and sometimes, more frequently in today's warfare, victims. Women are often left with the responsibility, alone, of raising the children.
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Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
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We're all influenced by everything unless we're locked in an empty room.
