Max Brooks Quotes
I think the fascination with zombies is that they don't obey the rules of monsters. The first rule of monsters is that you have to go find them. You have to make a conscious choice to go to the swamp or the desert or the abandoned summer camp.

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All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
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I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.
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But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.
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So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done.
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It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
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Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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TV is obviously so different from film: because it's a never-ending process, it keeps going; you keep receiving new pages.
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My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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We are here today because of grass-roots conservatives all over the place. That's the way the democratic process is supposed to work. It's not supposed to be a bunch of guys in a smoky room in Austin picking the next Senator.
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If you've got people around you that are like, 'Oh, you're so good,' this and that, it becomes unhealthy. My friends are like, 'You look like a doofus.' I'm like, 'Thank you. Thank you for that.' It keeps me grounded.
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'Evita' was four pieces of slick paper and a record album. It's the most scary, to sit down and dictate a musical scene by scene. It was a musical unlike anything I'd ever seen before myself.
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Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.
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Where there is humility, there is more success, and lasting success.
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My style is quite clean, vintage, and almost French in a way.
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'Places to Go' is something that I would never normally write because I would usually be worried with what people would think about me.
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I will tell you, in the case of education, you have to make the investment if you're going to get the return. There's no doubt about that. It's a proven fact the return is there if you make the investment. It really is about priorities.
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In the Arctic, the Inuit are saying water and land are the same; they're an unbroken unity. In the winter, you travel on the ice because it's the linkage and the easiest way, and in the summer, you move around on the water.
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Once I start shooting that jumper, I feel like I will be one of those guys that is hard to stop.
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Well, anything you want to make public is your public business.
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I think the fascination with zombies is that they don't obey the rules of monsters. The first rule of monsters is that you have to go find them. You have to make a conscious choice to go to the swamp or the desert or the abandoned summer camp.