George A. Romero Quotes
I vote in the Academy, so I get all the screeners. I'm so often disappointed by all the material and especially by what wins. I find myself never voting for the winner.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
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Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.
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The minute I saw the front page of the 'Daily Telegraph' - me with my arm around the latest 'X-Factor' contestant - I realised I'd gone into a new realm.
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Our laboratory is a place that celebrates diversity and is totally open to all differences, not just sex but also age, ethnicity, religion and other traditions.
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For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
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Man must be in space - that is what we are destined for. There is nothing else that we can do.
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Getting old is better than being young. You can do what you want to do.
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I believe that the most meaningful way to succeed is to help other people succeed.
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Fortunately, I have money that's from my life's work. But it's money that I share and used greatly to fight poverty in my country.
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From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big, bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'
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If I am in Sweden, I try to get home to be with my children. I can do work after that from home.
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As a writer, I'm a composite intelligence.
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There is a perennial nobleness and even sacredness in work. Be he never so benighted and forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual Despair.
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Sloan Gibson is doing a great job. We need to give him more power to terminate employees.
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We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste beyond all computation.
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I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom.
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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are ridiculous-looking - especially her. They're so strange and charismatic and weird. It's pretty hard to take your eyes off them.
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Obama ran as sane and decent, as though we were electing a mood, and not necessarily a set of policies. Unfortunately, Obama has governed the same way - and misread the mood, which is all there is, really, because being crazy and stupid is all we're really good at politically any more.
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My writing process hasn't changed - it's is the same whether I'm working on a Y.A. novel or, as now, a new novel for adults. A lot of reading, a lot of research if the subject warrants it, a lot of sticky notes and scraps of paper - and get to work.
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I'm a horrible perfectionist and very highly strung. That's why I do yoga: to unwind.
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A fertile soil alone does not carry agriculture to perfection.
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I've been involved with sports my whole life, which made clothes and makeup and handbags not that important as a kid. I just didn't care.
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I vote in the Academy, so I get all the screeners. I'm so often disappointed by all the material and especially by what wins. I find myself never voting for the winner.
