George A. Romero Quotes
'The Thing from Another World' was the first movie that really scared me. But the one that made me want to make movies was 'The Tales of Hoffman.' That's my favorite film of all time. It's a fantasy film. It's an opera. I never get tired of it.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.
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For me, family has always come first.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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People always say 'humbling,' but I actually think it's quite inflating being nominated for an award. It's wonderful; it's a great feeling.
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Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
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I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.
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I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.
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Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
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Judges are the people who have to protect the rights of individuals, have to protect the rights of minorities, have to protect the rights in the Constitution, have to protect the requirement that the executive and the legislature not simply exercise raw power but adhere to standards of reasonableness and constitutionality.
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Perhaps I don't give the impression that I'm hurting on the track. But that is because I am animated by an interior force which covers my suffering.
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I'm just trying to work out a way to be a singer and to create cool content. I'm willing to do that as an entertainer. But I'm not willing to give up my actual self.
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I always liked having a good time. I got into this business because I got fired from any job I ever had because I stayed out late playing music.
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'The Thing from Another World' was the first movie that really scared me. But the one that made me want to make movies was 'The Tales of Hoffman.' That's my favorite film of all time. It's a fantasy film. It's an opera. I never get tired of it.
