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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'Love Will Keep Us Together' was a combination of three different singing styles - Al Green, the Beach Boys, and Diana Ross. I loved all these people, and I put their singing styles together and wrote that tune.
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The people who are buying stocks because they're going up and they don't know what they do deserve to lose money.
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People say to me, you have not got stage fright. And if I haven't got stage fright, then I'm going to be comfortable within myself, and then something - I've always been that way and so I'm fighting to get away from that fear.
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It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.
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Obsession remains the price of creation, and the writer who declines that risk will come up with nothing more creative than 'The Foxes of Harrow' or 'Mrs. Parkington.'
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I guess my stuff needs to grow on people. Too bad! That seems to happen with all of it.
