Nicolas Roeg (Nicolas Jack Roeg) Quotes

Movies which set out to be 'commercial' usually have an artificial look about them-a certain waxlike quality. They allow for no failure, no moment of mistake.

Nicolas Roeg

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• Here's the deal with Matty Morrison: He is the most unassuming, nicest, most humble guy, who also happens to be extremely talented.

  

  Victoria Clark
  • Guy
  • Humble
  • Deal

• The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Children
  • Focus
  • Football

• It's very interesting, the dynamics of popularity. When you do something all the time, you don't worry about whether it's trendy or not.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Time
  • Interesting
  • Worry

• I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute... Just not well.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Think
  • Guitar
  • Piano

• I really connect to strong feminist writers that make their ideas accessible for the rest of the world.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • World
  • Strong
  • Rest

• The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Fire

• It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Life
  • Good
  • Comedy

• My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose. But if we call ourselves hillbillies, it's a sort of a term of endearment, something that we have co-opted.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • You
  • Someone
  • Grandma

• Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Science
  • End
  • Romance

• I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Today
  • Beginning
  • End

• Parents should be allowed to choose which cable or satellite channels - sources of the most extreme content - come into their homes.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Parents
  • Choose
  • Content

• It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • People
  • Support
  • Understand

• I believe in working with the hearts of people, and not locking them up.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Always
  • Start
  • Size

• If you were to come out and hang out with me, just having fun at a nightclub or a party, that's kind of the version of Harland you'd get - silly, kind of always saying wacky things.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Fun
  • Party
  • Silly

• I fear that the rising personal bankruptcies and repossessions are the first signs of bigger problems to come and personal debt - Gordon Brown's legacy to millions of Britain's families - will hang like a millstone around the neck of the British people for years to come.

  

  Vince Cable
  • People
  • Fear
  • Problems

• In the modern era, Jewish sovereignty over the land of our ancestors is a relatively short phenomenon. From the time of the successful Maccabean revolt to the Roman annexation in 63 BC constitutes about 100 years of Jewish rule. Combined with Israel's independence in 1948, this is about 160 years of effective sovereignty.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Time
  • Short
  • Independence

• Islam is about finding your own space.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Space
  • Islam
  • Finding

• The luxury we have when we do a series is that we go through a long journey, and it keeps a lot of information and things to be revealed.

  

  Tcheky Karyo
  • Long
  • Journey
  • Information

• People should decide 'are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?' I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money - they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • People
  • Money
  • Think

• It seems that certain transcendental realities emit rays to which the masses are sensitive. That is how, for example, when an event takes place, when at the front an army is in danger, or defeated, or victorious, the rather obscure news which the cultivated man does not quite understand, excite in the masses an emotion which surprises him and in which, once the experts have informed him of the actual military situation, he recognizes the populace's perception of that "aura" surrounding great events and visible for hundreds of kilometers.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Army
  • Danger
  • Realities

• I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Really

• Movies which set out to be 'commercial' usually have an artificial look about them-a certain waxlike quality. They allow for no failure, no moment of mistake.

  

  Nicolas Roeg
  • Movies
  • Commercial
  • Artificial