Nicolas Roeg (Nicolas Jack Roeg) Quotes
Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.Nicolas Roeg
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
Nana Mouskouri -
All men begin their learning with Homer.
Xenophanes -
Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.
Ian Smith -
I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.
Jack Ma -
In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two.
Hank Azaria -
I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.
Lady Gaga
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It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and my role was to play the solos. But he took great pride in his technique as a rhythm guitarist.
Wayne Kramer -
I love Lancome's L'Absolu Rouge lipstick, as it lasts. Unless you spend the whole night snogging, you won't need to reapply it.
Kate Winslet -
The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.
J. William Fulbright -
People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.
Abby Wambach -
If I hadn't have been good enough at football, I'd have been a sports journalist - which is what I do now anyway. Or a cricketer. I might have been a cricketer.
Gary Lineker -
I have no regrets. I've got my health.
Naomi Campbell
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So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it.
Camryn Manheim -
Some people have been talking about - every place I go, they bring up the issue of foreign aid. I go, 'You can't get rid of all foreign aid.'
Dan Webster -
We learn by taking action and seeing whether it works or not.
Patrick Lencioni -
From a pretty early age, my mother realized that I was a little bit more gifted and talented than my own age group. So, she moved me over to play with the boys' travel soccer team when I was about 11 years old.
Abby Wambach -
A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
Abraham Maslow -
If you're smarter than me, you shouldn't be reading my books.
Malcolm Gladwell
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America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty.
Bainbridge Colby -
I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.
Erica Jong -
Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
Vanessa Redgrave -
I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
Ira Sachs -
I am not joining politics. I don't intend to contest election. I am happy to be back to doing normal things, be it films or other work.
Juhi Chawla -
Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.
Nicolas Roeg