Nicolas Roeg Quotes

Oscars are won with two or three shots only, because if it's really beautifully photographed, you don't really notice it until the astounding moment emphasizes it.

Nicolas Roeg

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MomentYouThreeTwoBecauseShots

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

John C. Maxwell

LifeIdeasShortYouActDate

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.

Andrew Greeley

ExperienceMeEnoughKindLiving

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

Meat Loaf

TakeFilmCharactersRolesReally

Considering the company I keep in this place, that is hardly surprising.

Robert Menzies

PlaceCompanyKeepSurprisingHardly

If you have a lot of short-term debt, it means that all of that money can be demanded in a very short period of time. Technically, short-term debt means money that's coming due within a year. Typically, it means money that's coming due within 30 to 90 days.

Jeffrey Sachs

TimeMoneyShortYearYouDebt

I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.

Stephen Chow

FootballChildDreamPoorLeather

That creates the magic, and that's the wonderment of the musical process and how precious that is.

Mick Fleetwood

ProcessMagicPreciousHowMusical

I hang out with my grandma, go to sleep at 8:30, and that's it.

Molly Bloom

SleepGoOutHangGrandma

It was easy to get the offers for the good-looking vapid dude. I guess that's my power alley.

Jason Lewis

PowerEasyGood-LookingGetAlley

But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination.

Diana Krall

MusicImaginationPeopleSongYou

We have this wonderful language and we don't appreciate it. That's old-fashioned me, but when I went to school, everyone had elocution lessons, not to sound posh but so you could be understood.

Penelope Keith

SchoolMeAppreciateLanguageYou

There are moments when I invoke my dad and think about him on the podium, but in a very positive way. I don't feel at all intimidated by him. I feel like I've found my own voice.

Thomas Newman

PositiveVoiceThinkFeelMoments

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