George A. Romero Quotes
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It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.
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I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.
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I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help.
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I'm not trying to be the next Dave Grohl or Phil Collins.
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The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
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When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.
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I love the Spider-Man story. I watched the cartoon on TV when I was a kid, and my brother wore his Spider-Man pyjamas everywhere.
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There isn't a country I ain't touch in Africa. I just came back from South of France, I toured China, Japan, wherever you name, 60,000 people come out to see Fat Joe.
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It's hard to strike that balance: to tell a kid that life isn't fair, but also recognize and enforce in them the reality that their choices matter.
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People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.
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I work with CEOs and their executive teams... and very few of these people are really indifferent about their employees or their customers.
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Having long hair has allowed me to enter orthodox or religiously conservative situations with slightly more ease.
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I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.
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On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on my collection of poems 'Native Guard.' I was there over a summer doing research in the archives and then writing in the reading room at the Jefferson building.
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The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.
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Paper publishers are doing everything they can to slow the transition to eBooks because, in a digital world, paper publishers' high hardback margins essentially disappear.
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I studied business and also studied film, then I graduated, and I worked at a network. I was able to use my business skills there - I was an associate producer for a little bit.
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Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
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As a writer, you have to put yourself in service to the character, get behind their eyes by delineating the world where the character develops. You have to listen to the character and see him inside his certain world to know what conclusions he would draw.
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When you add a period of 25 years between the playing and the listening, then the whole question of meaning gets very complicated.
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I learned a long time ago that it doesn't make me less of a woman because my babies come out of a different place. My C-sections have been fine.
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I was so afraid of upsetting people, and not being liked for saying something that was not to everyone's taste.
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I like to use horror as allegory.
