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

• Negativity, in general, is one of the things that holds people back, and you have to see what's holding you back to get away from it.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • People
  • Negativity

• Some people have said that I can 'hear' a hit song, meaning that I can tell the first time a song is played for me if it has potential. I have been able to hear some of the hits that way, but I can also 'feel' one.

  

  Glen Campbell
  • People
  • Time
  • Song

• For me, the creative process, first of all, requires a good nine hours of sleep a night. Second, it must not be pushed by the need to produce practical applications.

  

  William Lipscomb
  • Night
  • Sleep
  • Creativity

• 'The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.'

  

  Donald Barthelme
  • Children
  • Crazy

• I don't have the option of getting fat. I like to try as much of our products as I can. Our sample size is size large, and I can't fit into our samples unless I'm at that size.

  

  Kevin Plank
  • Option

• 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