Nicolas Roeg Quotes

Critics reach that age when it is as valuable and daring to hold a negative opinion as it is for a positive. We learn and understand from both.

Nicolas Roeg

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The house was big enough for my brother and me to have firecracker wars at one end and leave Mom and Dad undisturbed at the other. When firecrackers weren't available, we attacked each other with pennies and marbles and clumps of Crisco, which made brilliant greasy asterisks when you missed and hit the wall.

John Dickerson

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Dissenting analysts passionate about their positions are not unusual in the American intelligence community. Their presence - or even the rejection - of their favored positions is not prima face evidence of politicization.

Michael Hayden

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If you do come across 'Sanctus' in a bookshop, please see past the cross on the cover and the sinister outline of a monk and just read the first page and make your own mind up. If it's still not for you, then that's fine; just put it back and walk away.

Simon Toyne

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Always give an autograph when somebody asks you.

Tommy Lasorda

YouAlwaysAutographGiveSomebody

Even if I'm not vocally my best, if I have a head cold, as an actor, I cannot give anything less than my very, very best. There's nowhere to hide!

Ruthie Ann Miles

BestColdHideActorHeadAnything

Maybe I'm just as bad as my critics who hound me.

Mike Gallagher

MeBadCriticsJustHoundWho

Emerging actors know there's a whole lot to learn each time they are spending with someone who's done a lot.

Debra Granik

TimeLearnSomeoneKnowDoneWhole

After being raised as an evangelical Christian, I for years assumed that Christianity was the default - there were Christians, and then there were weirdos. I was shocked when, in college, I found that some people get offended when you tell them, for instance, that their recovery from surgery was a 'miracle.'

David Wong

PeopleCollegeChristianYouMiracle

I like to get a rise out of my mom with what I wear - I always go for the tallest heels or something super trendy.

Christa B. Allen

MomRiseGoAlwaysOutSomething

In this new world where art is willfully misinterpreted to score points and to distract, simply doing the work of an artist has become a political act.

Corey Stoll

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I don't think I could compare myself to Macaulay Culkin, because we're pretty much two different kinds of actors.

Brian Bonsall

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If you really love someone, you can't be angry if they don't love you the same way. You got to just love them because you love them, not because you're expecting anything back in return.

Scooter Braun

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