George A. Romero Quotes
I guess my stuff needs to grow on people. Too bad! That seems to happen with all of it.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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I cry all the time. I love to laugh, too. It's important to create an environment for yourself where you feel what you need to and don't hold it in.
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.
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Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
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A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues such as emotional issues, stress issues. They become stress eaters and emotional eaters.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
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These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
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In 2013, a great national coalition came together to compel Congress to deny Barack Obama authority to take us to war in Syria.
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It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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You grow up a lot in terms of your understanding of the industry and how to deal with the corporate things.
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I am an avid follower of the news, and sometimes you just can't take any more war, any more disasters, and you want to remind yourself there's beauty in the world. I wanted to show a more poetic side to my work. It was all about... a feeling of sadness, but in a cinematic kind of way. I find beauty in melancholy.
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I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.
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If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me. Help the homeless. Help the needy... people who don't have no food... Instead of some big funeral, where they come from here and there and all over. Save it.
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Everyone is tortured. Do you know anyone who isn't?
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I guess my stuff needs to grow on people. Too bad! That seems to happen with all of it.
