George A. Romero Quotes
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I was drawn to things I thought were either sexy or aggressive - or both.
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
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Those differences are what color the performance, but in the movies you don't get a chance to rehearse.
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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
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Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.
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I would hate to be thrust into the middle of a big film and not deliver. There's young actors and they're put into these central roles and they're commanding armies - but they can't quite pull it off. I'd much rather do it in small steps and build it from there.
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I'm lucky to be married to someone who entirely gets what I do. She is totally sympathetic to the actor's life. Her own mother was an actress, so she sort of grew up with it.
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There was a certain feeling I developed as a young person for black people. Somehow they were able to get pleasure out of things that I couldn't see them enjoying. I heard them sing a lot, and I didn't hear white folks going down the cotton rows singing that much.
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My face changes when I wear make-up; I don't recognise myself.
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From a relationship perspective, givers build deeper and broader connections.
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We owe our success to them, and also to the fact that, as the saying goes, two 'Eds' are better than one.
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If it's anything I can't stand, it's yes-men. When I say no, I want you to say no, too.
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Within the black community, roughly 60 percent of children are born to single moms. Moms don't have the emotional wherewithal to deal with their children. Their English is atrocious. Their speaking is atrocious. The dropout rate is horrendous.
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I'm not going to present myself one way all the time just because it will make me sell best.
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You never get to pick how you get pinned and how people perceive you.
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I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.
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For me, I would prefer to not have my face on the album cover. I don't mind being in the public, but it's just not really my personality, and it's not really why I'm into this. I like making art, and that's it. I don't really want to be a celebrity, seriously. I like my privacy.
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I'm a huge horror fan.
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At night, never go to bed without knowing what you'll write tomorrow.
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I did a couple of movies in Brazil, and the actors were incredibly congenial and hung out together a lot. Even the biggest stars would do radio commercials - they're not put on a pedestal like they are in the United States.
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I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.
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Orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular. Mere orderliness leads to increasing impoverishment and finally to the lowest possible level of structure, no longer clearly distinguishable from chaos, which is the absence of order. A counterprinciple is needed, to which orderliness is secondary. It must supply what is to be ordered.
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I love 'Shaun of the Dead.'
