George A. Romero Quotes
I go to conventions and universities and talk to young filmmakers and everybody's making a zombie movie! It's because it's easy to get the neighbors to come out, put some ketchup on them.
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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My dream was to play in good films, no matter in what country. I always waited for a decent script, and nothing has changed. I'm just sure that nothing in life is random, and I believe in the fate which guides you. Probably my starring in 'A Good Day to Die Hard' is good proof of that.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.
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I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.
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I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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Usually, I just don't care what I look like. If it's cold, I'm, like, putting on whatever I have to to be warm.
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My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.
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Dancing doesn't have a language.
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Luxury is a state of mind.
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I can't say 'I'm proud to say' - because it's not a choice for many Americans - but I can say I'm fortunate enough to not be raising my kids on McDonald's.
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I always hated to throw a guy out of a game but sometimes it was necessary to keep order.
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Whenever I am asked about my personal relationships, I politely reply, 'No comments.'
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Funding has not kept pace with demand for expanded lanes and well-maintained roadways.
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I don't like people being negative, whining, or moaning. If you're in a situation you're not in control of, just change.
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I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n' roll especially comes from blues.
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I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.
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I've always been against trying to make a movie like another movie. That's lame. It's already been done, so why do it again?
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I go to conventions and universities and talk to young filmmakers and everybody's making a zombie movie! It's because it's easy to get the neighbors to come out, put some ketchup on them.
