George A. Romero Quotes
My zombie films were all sort of satirical, with political messages. So I was doing them inexpensively and quietly off in left field somewhere.
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The issues that we face as a country and in South Florida aren't broken down by city line or county line.
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My mum wouldn't have had any time for fantasy stuff; she's more practical.
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Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
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We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
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Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
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There is so much to groak; So little to groak from.
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You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.
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Becoming a father made me a lot more sentimental than I ever was before. I never cried at movies before I became a parent. I feel music more intensely. I think of my political ideas as ideas about how I want to interact with other human beings as opposed to abstract theories about how the world should be.
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It's easier to be authentic if you don't say you are authentic.
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Even if you're just making a list of all the things you have to do, putting your pen to paper gets it out of your head. It puts you in this place of release.
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My zombie films were all sort of satirical, with political messages. So I was doing them inexpensively and quietly off in left field somewhere.
