George A. Romero Quotes
The grotesque has never really affected or frightened me. I guess it's real-life stuff that frightens me much more.
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Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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I'm truly blessed with great genes. I've never done anything drastic in my life, and I can proudly say I haven't tried any of those crazy fad diets, either. I believe in eating right and living healthy. Plus, I love going to the gym, and I enjoy yoga because it streamlines your body.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really - to do something that's just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.
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One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew nothing about me, except that my books were being set in front of you to read, and if you were to read those books in sequence, I don't think you would say to yourself, 'Oh my God, something terrible happened to this writer in 1989.'
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I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It's best not to ask questions and just enjoy.
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The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.
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If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn.
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What I learned from boxing and what everyone can take in real life is to follow directions, follow order. Don't give nobody a hard time.
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You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.
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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
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The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message.
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The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.
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I wake up every day and look at my own ugly mug in the mirror and don't think twice about it. The fact that other people might want to look at me still feels funny. It's flattering, but funny.
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The gun is not out of Irish politics.
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The legacy of the Freddie Gray unrest? I think that remains to be determined.
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The grotesque has never really affected or frightened me. I guess it's real-life stuff that frightens me much more.
