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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If I go to Hollywood, I will have to start all over again – which is fine and makes me humble.
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I've always just wanted people to look at me.
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The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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I saw the original that Gela Babluani wrote and directed called '13 Tzameti,' and that was very interesting. I believe it was a French film, and I was just intrigued by the awkwardness; the off-beatness of the film really just grasped me.
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There aren't very many good models of feminine rage - and the ones that we remember are ones where women take that anger internally and implode themselves in a real way, like Anna Karenina or Emma Bovary.
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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.
