George A. Romero Quotes
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I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.
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Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.
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As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'
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I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.
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I'm not a one-issue person.
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Every relationship comes with a shelf life; that duration could be a minute or even a lifetime. If, for whatever reasons, a relationship cannot last a lifetime, contrary to what the two people imagined, then both the individuals have to be communicative and have to understand and accept the reality.
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'The Art Student's War' is, at its core, a traditional American wartime love story. As such, it is timely and engrossing. By the end, all its principal characters 'have been to Hell and back.'
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I think I can help others just by my example.
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Then my mother had several strokes and my father, who was 85, couldn't handle it, so Donna came back and we went through the same thing here. She lives in Mill Valley; her group is organizing this event.
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Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.
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My dad and I used to watch 'Ninja Warrior' all the time back when it was in Japan. I would always say, 'I could do that,' kind of joking, but obviously kind of serious.
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There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.
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I was always running off to the city, whether it was Philly or New York, going somewhere where there was something more for me.
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I think all tennis players have to struggle through the early stages of their career. We start off playing tournaments and really just get by. I always had a dream to play in the big tournaments and never have doubted if it was worth it. Having to battle a little early on in my career makes it all the more worthwhile now.
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I suppose people hadn't really thought each decade should have its own character and be different from the others till the 1920s, although I remember in a nineteenth-century Russian novel someone remarked that a character was a typical man of the 1830s - progressive and an atheist.
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North Korea is the errant teenage child, aren't they? Or toddler - they're holding their breath until they get their way.
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The reason I was in most of the movies I've done is that they paid for me to be in the theater.
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Basically, we used to have a rule at 'Saturday Night Live' that you're not allowed to bring up 'The Simpsons' at the rewrite table, because 'The Simpsons' has done every joke there is. Every week there would be guys going, 'The Simpsons did that.' I go, 'C'mon.' And 'South Park,' too.
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If you were blessed with a fortunate position... why wouldn't you want to impact the world around you as much as possible?
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Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.
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I still remember going to a smart restaurant in Los Angeles, and the maitre d' knew my name and showed me straight to a table even though we hadn't booked. I get stopped for autographs by people from Sweden on the tops of mountains.
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The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.
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'Day of the Dead' remains my favourite zombie film of mine.
