George A. Romero Quotes
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.
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I've had watermelon hair where I had pink with green tips. From the age of 13 to about 19 or 20, I never had my real hair color.
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You want people who choose to follow because they genuinely believe in ideas, not because they're afraid to be punished if they don't. For startups, there's so much pivoting that's required that if you have a bunch of sheep, you're in bad shape.
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Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.
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The power should be in individual democracies in individual communities. It shouldn't be an oligarchy or some small group of elite. Power should be with the people and not with some politician or some heir to the throne or some madman.
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As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything.
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I'm there on all the social networking sites, as it plays an important role.
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Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time.
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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
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I've always loved Scotland, and I'm not a huge fan of big cities, to be honest. I like them to dip into for a bit, but I'm not sure I would want to live in one again.
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Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?
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I can't bear the thought of my mother having to push me around in a wheelchair. I'd rather die quickly.
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How wonderful it was to sit on a set with Norman Mailer and get to know him.
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When I was growing up, I thought I was getting bored of acting, so I left that. Then after a few years, I started missing it. I left my studies mid-way, and I used to give lots of auditions.
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Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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The idea that democracies could be vulnerable to demagogues is not a new notion.
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Continuous present is all we have, and stream of consciousness - which in a novel is arguably just as artificial as the stilted dialogue that you get in most conventional novels. They're all stratagems to try to get closer to the texture of lived life.
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I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
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Movies are about escape.
