Nicolas Roeg Quotes

I like women in film. I like women in general, but I especially like to show them on film. They are not ciphers.

Nicolas Roeg

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WomenFilmShowLikeGeneralThem

I feel like in the reading I did when I was growing up, and also in the way that people talk and tell stories here in the South, they use a lot of figurative language. The stories that I heard when I was growing up, and the stories that I read, taught me to use the kind of language that I do. It's hard for me to work against that when I am writing.

Jesmyn Ward

WorkI AmPeopleMeGrowing UpFeel

I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.

Robert Wyatt

MeWritingFindNeverHardSinger

I'm very conscious of the fact that when I'm working, my daughter is not with one of her parents.

Michelle Williams

DaughterParentsHerWorkingFact

I admit that I've been beaten up so many times in films, but we do not fake it - we actually have to fight when we shoot to make it real and to save film and time. Even the props that are not real, like the bats are plastic, but they're still very hard, so it still hurts.

Min-sik Choi

TimeFightFakeAdmitHardPlastic

I like to think everyone is pretty weird but they don't show it.

David Walton

ThinkWeirdEveryonePrettyShow

Life on the road can get a little one-dimensional. I didn't want to reach 40 and have to say all I'd done was look out the window of a tour bus and get drunk.

Bruce Dickinson

LifeWindowRoadReachDrunkLook

The whole film is about people being convinced that they can reduce themselves to their archetypes.

Atom Egoyan

PeopleArchetypesBeingFilmWhole

I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality.

Sydney Pollack

PeopleNumbersKnowConservative

I'm not happy on vacation. In those rare times when I have three hours with no work I have to do, I'm terribly uncomfortable.

Scott Adams

WorkVacationHappyUncomfortable

My life is really so much based in England.

Jamie Oliver

LifeMy LifeEnglandMuchReally

I make more money in a week than my father made in a year.

Gwen Ifill

FatherMoneyWeekYearMoreMade

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Friedrich Nietzsche

FreedomPrideNowNothingMoreBeen

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