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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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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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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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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Character is what a man is in the dark.
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When parents ask why there are still so few girls in advanced science and math classes in high school, I tell them, because girls still need way more encouragement than boys to take those courses.
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History is cyclical, and it would be foolhardy to assume that the culture wars will never return.
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Older prisoners are more expensive for prisons to house because they tend to require more health care over time.
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What I learned is you have to be forgiving with yourself. You have to be willing to take your time, and you can't expect things from yourself that you can't deliver.
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People often call 'If I Stay' my baby novel, and I have to correct them. It's not my first book. It's just the first one anybody paid attention to.
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People ask me about past projects I've worked on, and other things; I'm just really bad at lying. I have a bad poker face, so I just try to tell people how I'm feeling in the moment and really what I was trying to do.
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With the first money I got, I built my parents a house back home, gave them a string of credit cards, and said 'Go.'
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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.
