George A. Romero Quotes
Nursery rhymes were political when they were first written! To me, that's what it's about: it's about using it to say something more than just what the story is.
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Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
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I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
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People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
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I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.
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It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.
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I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I'll watch myself back on 'Xtra Factor' and want to do it again because of a few hiccups.
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.
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I was asked if I would play President Obama in 'My Name is Khan.' I didn't feel comfortable with doing it. Partly because he was still in office, but mainly because I felt that there were other people who were better suited to doing the role.
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You're not going to have something set on a council estate that explores all elements of human existence, the variety of experience inherent in any community.
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I feel like comedy had a boys'-club label when we were starting.
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Marcone: In my judgment, my buildings are less likely to burn to the ground during one of your visits if you are disoriented from being treated like a sultan.
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Of what use is genius, if the organ is too convex or too concave and cannot find a focal distance within the actual horizon of human life?
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The uniformity and repeatability of print created the 'political arithmetic' of the seventeenth century and the 'hedonistic calculus' of the eighteenth. (p. 237)
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Then I’ll have to succeed three times as hard as they want me to fail. You, of all people, should understand that.
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Nursery rhymes were political when they were first written! To me, that's what it's about: it's about using it to say something more than just what the story is.
