A bad historian is even more dangerous than dead documentary wood.
It's difficult to do a genre film well, and it doesn't matter if you're talking vampire movies or 'Dawn of the Dead' or 'The Thing' or 'Escape From New York.' Those kind of movies, they understand what the old-school B-movie is supposed to be, they get the throwback of it.
There are popular celebrities, there are unpopular celebrities and then there are the walking dead. You know the walking dead when you see them: they look like Mel Gibson, still striving for drunken charm in an L.A. County mug shot, after getting picked up on a DWI charge that included anti-semitic slurs directed at the police.
Feminism is not dead, by no means. It has evolved. If you don't like the term, change it, for Goddess' sake. Call it Aphrodite, or Venus, or bimbo, or whatever you want; the name doesn't matter, as long as we understand what it is about, and we support it.
Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.
When he's late for dinner, I know he's either having an affair or is lying dead in the street. I always hope it's the street.
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale... I often feel as if I were dead... I seem to be losing my mind.
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence of others in my house kind of annoys me. I love coming home and shutting the doors. I feel brain dead. I'm relatively available, but not to live with.
Ishmael Beah was born and spent his childhood in Sierra Leone as that sad but beautiful West African country was ravaged by a civil war that left some 50,000 dead between 1991 and 2002. He was a child soldier for a while, then, through extraordinary circumstances, was set free of that life.
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
If you ask me if I think I will be sober in 24 hours time I can say yes, but in two years I can't tell you. I could be dead.
We used to talk about wanting to get some money, but that's when hip-hop was based on your dreams and your fantasy. The whole thing now is the dreams and fantasies were achieved, and you don't want to make it the focal point. You can't keep beating that dead horse.
My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.
Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.
Rock and roll and swing never quite mixed. Rock and roll came in and just blew everything out of the water. Big bands were dead.
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring.
What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation.
At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.
I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living.
Here in L.A., there are a lot of dead spots, and you have to drive to find energy, but all of India is so energetic.
I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
If you marry the wrong person for the wrong reasons, then no matter how hard you work, it's never going to work, because then you have to completely change yourself, completely change them, completely - by that time, you're both dead.
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It's a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people who are dead or the women who left you.
What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.
It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.
When I was born, I was effectively dead. Weird, I know. The doctors couldn't get any reaction from me, so I had to be brought round, and although it seemed like I was okay, there were underlying problems.
Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.
One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.
Political biography is in the doldrums. No one wants to read 800 pages or so of cradle-to-grave dead politics, especially if it's familiar stuff and has all been written about before.
Overnight ratings are dead. It's just not the way TV is sold any more.
The song I like to do is 'Dead.' I'm constantly playing that one.
