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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What sets 'Some Nights' apart from anything we've ever done is the hip-hop influence. Not so much the actual sound of hip-hop, but more the vibrato and the artistry that comes with it. Right now, the artists that seem to be pushing to be the greatest artists and are trying to change the world are hip-hop artists.
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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've always felt very much from a mixed culture – mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.
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I never exercise, and I eat everything.
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Syrian influence has not ended yet. It is going to be a very long path.
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Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
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It's not just that government has failed us. It's not just that we have failed ourselves. It's government. It's individuals. It's sort of everything in between, from families and communities and neighborhoods, churches and so forth.
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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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I took this 'how to build computers' course basically because I'm sick and tired of getting ripped off by cheesy computer companies. Software baffles me. I like hardware. I used to change my own oil, and now I want to build my own computer so I can have what I want.
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I've written just about everything for the sake of putting shoes on the children's feet - and a bottle of gin in the cupboard.
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The Lincoln Highway is to be something more than a road. It will be a road with a personality, a distinctive work of which the Americans of future generations can point with pride - an economic but also artistic triumph.
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Strong December durable goods and the upward revision to November show that perhaps there isn't enough monetary restraint after all.
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We're all influenced by everything unless we're locked in an empty room.
