George A. Romero Quotes
I don't like the new trends in horror. All this torture stuff seems really mean-spirited. People have forgotten how to laugh, and I don't see anybody who's using it as allegory.
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.
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I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.
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I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.
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The American dream is still to own your home.
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My father was dark skinned because he was Tatar. Sometimes Tatars can look Brazilian.
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People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.
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I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it's important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it's great fun growing old.
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No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.
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My life is longer because of the journeys I have taken.
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There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.
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I don't like the new trends in horror. All this torture stuff seems really mean-spirited. People have forgotten how to laugh, and I don't see anybody who's using it as allegory.
