George A. Romero Quotes
The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director.
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The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.
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I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
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I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
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However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.
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Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.
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In the web products and services world, you have a real-time interaction with your customers, and then a real-time editing of how you as a company are doing.
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Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
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I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
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I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.
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I have very much been a guy who's acknowledged how many women have directed me, have produced... it's been unbelievable.
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I try to surround myself with people smarter than me - if I'm the smartest guy in the room, I change rooms.
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The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director.
