Nicolas Roeg Quotes

Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance. What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

Nicolas Roeg

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GodPeopleChanceStoryLaughPlans

People say I'm tough and too blunt. I'm a product of my organization. MSF is a blunt, tough, no-nonsense organization.

Joanne Liu

PeopleOrganizationToughSayBlunt

People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it's because you're sweating to death.

Jessica Simpson

WomenDeathPeopleGlowYouSay

Laughing a lot is really good for you, embracing your children's future and embracing your grandchildren, and not having regrets and not being bitter and not being angry.

Jerry Hall

GoodFutureChildrenAngryYou

My kids wouldn't dream of buying a newspaper - and we are a newspaper household.

Andrew Marr

DreamNewspaperBuyingKids

Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense; or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.

Matthew Simpson

ChangeFaithKnowledgeUnderstandUs

You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

Stephen Covey

LifeJobYouMeaningfulRetireEver

When I moved out, my mom and dad came to help me get settled into my apartment - a place I ultimately got hooked up with in Coach Nelson's building. We had to figure out how to get all my shoes over here. That was a little stressful.

Stephen Curry

ShoesMeMomBuildingHelpPlace

We try to say it's creative and in a manner it is creative, but it is a business, because today, with the cost factor in crossing the boundaries that you do.

Skitch Henderson

BusinessTodayCreativeYouSayTry

You know, a vampire book is not a book to be the vehicle for big themes and stuff, where sometimes when you're dealing with art or the life of Christ or the oeuvre of Shakespeare, you know, it's a little more ambitious.

Christopher Moore

LifeArtBookYouKnowSometimes

As a book editor, you need to pitch every one of your books again and again, dozens of times, for months on end. From a quick conversation with your boss or a letter that'll be read by just one person, to a five-minute speech in front of 50 colleagues or cover copy that'll be in front of millions of eyes.

Chris Pavone

EyesBossBookColleaguesEndYou

I don't sell enough books to pay for the lawyers, however. And these various problems finally became too much.

Peter Sotos

ProblemsEnoughLawyersToo MuchPay

Only liberals know how to make you freer on the job, which is where most of us suffer the gravest indignities in our lives.

Rick Perlstein

JobYouKnowSufferWhereUs

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