Nicolas Roeg (Nicolas Jack Roeg) Quotes
The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.
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I exercise at home - light cardio and yoga.
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Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.
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I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
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I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
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Two successive commissioners in London police were fired by the mayor that came into office. That doesn't mean the police in London is not independent and does not exercise powers. Ultimately it is the political executive that has to answer.
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I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
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I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
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I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.
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You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.
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Whenever I go on the red carpet and I'm a bit nervous, I just say to myself the mantra, 'Come on Barbara, you gotta get those pictures posted on Instagram!' That's all I have in my mind, like, 'Look serious now, maybe give a little smile, but a cheeky one,' but in the end, it's never how it looks.
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How does one measure the success of a museum?
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I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.
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My father taught me many important giving lessons, but two stand out. First, always give as much as you possibly can. And second, give equally from among your resources - your time, your mind and your capital. These are principles I live by.
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I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.
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If you speak to anyone who's ever done time, the fact that you make it out of there alive is a miracle.
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To some extent, the act of creation and the act of selling are hard to disentangle. If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.
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To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.
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The truth was I felt ugly growing up. I only really started feeling comfortable in myself when I was 40.
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People think artists like 50 Cent don't have charisma, but it's just a different kind of charisma, a bully charisma, which is kinda frowned upon.
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Anybody you make a movie with when you're 12 and they're 14, you're going to know them your whole life.
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I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago, and of people who will see a world that I shall never know.
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The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.
