George A. Romero Quotes
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I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
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Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.
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I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.
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Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi shut its doors.
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I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the same person.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.
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People come up and say, 'Hey, I know you!' They're middle-aged women and big burly guys. They say, 'Don't tell anyone, but I watch Felicity, and I think it's great.'
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The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
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The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.
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Just because you're selling out shows doesn't mean you deserve better treatment than the person next door.
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I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling.
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The president and Republicans in Congress have repeatedly promised to revisit Social Security privatization after November. But Americans have already said, loud and clear, that they don't want Social Security to be privatized or dismantled.
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Ultimately, even if you follow the advice of a mentor or board member, it's still your fault if they were wrong!
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We hate our heroes, you know. That's one of the great things about this whole deconstruction thing - there's no more heroes. It's always been there, you just look at people's reactions, and when the good guys are skunks, those parts stick with us.
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For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap colored prints; unfashionable literature, church Latin, pornographic books badly spelt, grandmothers novels, fairy stories, little books for children, old operas, empty refrains, simple rhythms.
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I want 'Dawn' to play like a cowboys and Indians movie.
