Nicolas Roeg (Nicolas Jack Roeg) Quotes
You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.
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I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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Every wall is a door.
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GIS is waking up the world to the power of geography, this science of integration, and has the framework for creating a better future.
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In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
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A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.
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The live setting is always better for me. I usually thrive at live. I feel like having a band behind me and being able to interact with the crowd helps boost my energy up.
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I love to smile.
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I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.
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Finland, and all the other European countries, we are too dependent on imported energy. We should be using a broader variety of energy resources.
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Every actor fears unemployment – even me.
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My grandma did opera singing for the better part of her life; she used to sing all over the place. My grandpa was a sax player, and he used to travel all over the place, too.
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One day, I will tell my story... where I came from and where I am now and how I remained positive.
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It is difficult to remember just how formal middle-class life was in the 1930's and '40s. I wore a suit and tie at home from the age of 18. One dressed for breakfast. One lived in a very formal way, and emotions were not paraded. And my childhood was not unusual.
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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Back when I was jamming with Axl and the guys they had boxes of cassettes with song ideas. How do you know which ones you like now when you have that many ideas.
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Breaking down barriers is tough. Many companies make the mistake of dismissing diversity early on, only to realize later how foundational it is to their success or failure.
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Children without access to quality early education programs start kindergarten with an 18-month disadvantage, and that gap continues to widen. By the time they are in fourth grade, many cannot do math or read at grade level.
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I moved from Chicago to New York in 1984 for 'Biloxi Blues.' In 1989, my wife and our then-baby daughter moved to Los Angeles to try to get in television.
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Silence is the winding-sheet of the past: it is sometimes impious, often dangerous to raise it. But even when it is raised piously and lovingly, the first moment is a cruel one.
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People who have never done theatre before, and have only worked in front of a camera, would find it very difficult, I think, to know how to command a stage and work with the logistics of being on stage. They're very different. The theatre is quite tricky, actually.
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Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.
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It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would.
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You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.
