Nicolas Roeg

Don't you think it's something strange that you rarely look at yourself in the mirror, except to do things like stand and ponder? I mean, in Shakespeare's day, it was thought that the mirror would reveal something, that it is trying to tell you something - not just to tidy your hair, but something more.

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There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle this way and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously.

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I've never tried to enhance my reputation. Never moved upwards from one thing to another. That sort of thing is of no interest to me at all.

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Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs.

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I love that perhaps we don't see the things that are there because we have no yardstick to see things by, to compare them.

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Quotes by Nicolas Roeg