"We're all influenced by everything unless we're locked in an empty room."

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Source : "Nicolas Roeg: 'I don't want to be ahead of my time'". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2011.

Nicolas Roeg

#Rooms Quotes #Empty Quotes

“Through the ear, we shall enter the invisibility of things.”
“I just hope, in all honesty, that Steve will walk if he hits it, you know what I mean? I would hate to be bringing up my bent finger as a controversial decision. I hope he'll go nice and easy - caught in the covers or bowled middle stump. I just hope he doesn't get his pads in the way or his bat's wide enough to get a thin edge [on Steve Waugh's last innings]”
“Life came in and put me in front of the camera before I could really make a decision, but I think I probably would have gravitated to film.”
“The music of your youth stays with you throughout your life.”
“We all deserve credit for this new surveillance state that we live in because we the people voted for the Patriot Act. Democrats and Republicans alike....We voted for the people who voted for it, and then voted for the people who reauthorized it, then voted for the people who re-re-authorize d it.”
“Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.”
“The true secret to genius is in creativity, not in technical mechanics.”
“From the Balkans to Africa, from Asia to the Middle East, we have witnessed the weakening or absence of effective governance leading to the ravaging of human rights and the abandonment of longstanding humanitarian principles. We need competent and responsible states to meet the needs of "we the peoples" for whom the UN was created. And the world's peoples will not be fully served unless peace, development and human rights, the three pillars of the UN, are advanced together with equal vigour.”

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