George A. Romero Quotes

If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.

George A. Romero

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• Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • Experience
  • Political
  • Blind

• Mark Twain cannot be defined.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • Mark
  • Mark Twain
  • Twain

• Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • You
  • Always
  • Once

• China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Character
  • Think
  • You

• I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Remember
  • Want
  • Feeling

• There are a bunch of songs that I think are beautiful recordings, and I'm proud of them, but I've no interest in listening to them.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Beautiful
  • Proud
  • Listening

• I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Book
  • Controversial

• We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Education
  • Challenge
  • Failure

• I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Want
  • Know
  • Religion

• It's an interesting thing to play the heroes of our society, like cops and firefighters. They're the basic heroes that, as little boys and little girls, you look up to as the first heroes of your small, specific community.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Up
  • Society
  • Small

• Ziggy Marley is the third generation of Marleys I know. I knew his grandmother and his dad - I did a children's album with his grandmother. They're like family.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Children
  • Family
  • Dad

• Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • Work
  • Important
  • Happy

• To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To do both with excellence is not possible. It is with a sense of sadness and joyous anticipation that I leave track and move on.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Dream
  • Focus
  • Justice

• We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • War
  • Human
  • Dumb

• I've seen a lot of 'Show Boats,' but I've never seen the one that thoroughly satisfies me.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Never
  • Seen
  • Satisfies

• Well, in brief, I was discovered by a lady called Beth Boldt. She had also been a model. She used to take pictures of the girls she found, and she took a picture of me one day in my school uniform, and it all kind of started from there.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • School
  • She
  • Day

• Jack Benny: Where's that big glass star I told you to pack away last Christmas?

  

  Jack Benny
  • Star
  • Christmas

• Bid us sigh on from day to day,And wish and wish the soul away,Till youth and genial years are flown,And all the life of life is gone.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Wish

• My favorite thing to do in L.A. is to be in a car with friends listening to music. The perfect time is twilight, when the setting sun is filtering through the palm trees. Back in the day, we'd be listening to the Vandals, X, or Farside. Now it would be L.A.-based bands like Dum Dum Girls, Foxygen, or Ty Segall.

  

  Liz Goldwyn
  • Time
  • Music
  • Friends

• I'll just drive around if I'm stuck on something or have a case of writer's block.

  

  Maren Morris

• Writing a nonfiction story is like cracking a safe. It seems impossible at the beginning, but once you're in, you're in.

  

  Rich Cohen
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • Impossible

• While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Live
  • Future
  • Past

• You can't put off being young until you retire.

  

  Philip Larkin

• If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.

  

  George A. Romero