George A. Romero Quotes
When you're shooting super-low-budget - we had 20 days to shoot 'Diary,' and a little over $2 - time is money.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make, and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I'm a little worried someone's going to do that.
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Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.'
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Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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I came to America to make it my home, and I did.
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When I get dolled up to go out, men turn their heads and I'm used to it. But I think all women are sexy and should embrace that side of themselves.
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I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.
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On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.
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Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.
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I squeeze oranges every morning to make juice.
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I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in choirs and loved to perform, but when I was in college, I went on a study abroad to Trinidad, and while I was there, I sang backup at my first concert.
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The third-down sacks are critical ones, 'cause that's getting off the field.
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I do what I can do to help my defense.
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Whether labeled as such or not, I think every book I've ever written has been, more or less, a romantic suspense. I have always put tremendous effort into making each book a page turner: The harder it is for the reader to put it down, the better I've done my job.
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My inspiration for songs is just everyday life. I just write down words about things that have happened to me, people I've met.
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When I turned 30, I realised the value of time and with it, the other important things in life. That's when I did up my house, started spending time with my family and friends and did all that a normal girl would do. All these things I was balancing with my work.
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Cruisin on the grey snakes till my dyin dayCheckin all the hen houses out along the wayWastin time and drinkin wineLife is short and I ain't lyinLivin all I can through every day.
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I was initially a leading man, but only on television.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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When you're shooting super-low-budget - we had 20 days to shoot 'Diary,' and a little over $2 - time is money.
