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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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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One changed child eventually changes a family. A changed family will influence change in its church. Enough changed churches will transform a community. Changed communities change regions. Changed regions will in time change an entire nation.
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We want to lead by our values and out interests in ways that, regardless of the trajectory over the next decade, people will know the United States was on the side of democracy, on the side of the rule of law.
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A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it's pretty much the same every week.
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I love Africa.
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We're all influenced by everything unless we're locked in an empty room.
