George A. Romero Quotes

I wanted 'Night of the Living Dead' to look naturalistic, but we weren't able to do it because we were shooting with a blimped 35mm camera, which is automatically static.

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• The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Life
  • Work
  • Economics

• Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Business
  • Kings

• Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.

  

  Daniel Gillies
  • People
  • You
  • Travel

• I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Long
  • American
  • Fun

• Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Compliment

• My work is focused on using data to tell stories and explore our common humanity.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Work
  • Humanity
  • Explore

• I think audiences will always like bad guys who kill for no apparent reason. We just like to hate them.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Hate

• You American people worry too much about the China economy. Every time you think China is a problem, we get better, but when you have a high expectation for China, China is always a problem.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Time
  • American

• Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Protect
  • Wants

• It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • You
  • Believing
  • Push

• You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Fear
  • Me
  • Treat

• Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to do it.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Great
  • Why
  • Movie

• 'Vogue' is a very beautiful magazine, an institution, and I learned so much working there.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Beautiful
  • Working
  • Learned

• I start a lot of things and purposely leave them unfinished. When I have a bunch of really long emails, and I need time to think about the response, I'll actually start replying, leave them as drafts, and move onto something else mid-sentence.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Time
  • Long
  • Start

• People's genes can say a great deal about their health. There are genes that reveal an increased likelihood of getting cancer, heart disease or Alzheimer's.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Great
  • Heart

• I'm a travel enthusiast.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Travel
  • Enthusiast

• I had a moment in the Library of Congress among the presidential papers. I opened a folder, and there was an envelope in it. The front of the envelope was facing the table, so I didn't know what was in it. I opened it and out spilled all this hair. I turned the envelop over and it says, 'Clipped from President Garfield's head on his deathbed.'

  

  Candice Millard
  • Hair
  • Moment
  • Library

• All art is political. Yes. Even the stuff that sounds like bubble-gum songs. I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society for change, and the only reason change doesn't happen is because within the target population, courage is lacking.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Society

• It was a team effort. We did everything that we needed for the win. You can't put it on one thing. We've been doing a lot of things well. We're playing well together. We're defending. We're doing a lot of positive things out there. We're putting ourselves in a (position) to win. We're giving ourselves a chance every night, just playing well defensively. We feel like every night we can score 100 points, but we've got to stop people.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • People
  • Together
  • Night

• Every night I get up on stage, I love it. I never get like, 'Oh, I'm bored, I want to go home.' I never, ever get like that.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Up
  • Home
  • Night

• People really don't understand what actors do.

  

  Sally Field
  • People
  • Understand
  • Really

• Instagram has said plenty of times that I'm pregnant, Instagram has said a lot of things about me that are not true, so I don't even know where that's coming from.

  

  Cardi B
  • True

• The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.

  

  Alex Bledsoe
  • World
  • Grow
  • Senses

• I wanted 'Night of the Living Dead' to look naturalistic, but we weren't able to do it because we were shooting with a blimped 35mm camera, which is automatically static.

  

  George A. Romero
  • Night