George A. Romero Quotes
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.
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I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.
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Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket. So, if I'm on set and I'm in character, I'm not thinking like a producer. If I'm on set and I'm not in character, wardrobe and make-up, and I'm just coming on set for the moments that I'm not shooting, then I'm able to be the producer.
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Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
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Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
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Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
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And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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New Year's Eve was always a big occasion at home with the family. Every year we would get the karaoke machine out and I'd entertain everyone, even as a young kid.
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The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.
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I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
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The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
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It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.
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European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.
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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
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I never intended to be in show business; I intended to be an extremely grounded person.
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Even though 'Heathers' didn't make a lot of money, I really was able to transition into a situation where people thought I could play an attractive role because of it.
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Let's just be smart this time. I'm looking for smart.
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I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever.
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In 2007, 'Diary of the Dead' all of a sudden made money. I was blindsided by that.
