Max Brooks Quotes
Zombies are so popular. There's a lot of chaff out there. For every one person who is legitimately passionate about zombies, there are a hundred people who are thinking, 'Hey, I can make a buck off of this.' The problem is that some of their stuff is so lame.
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
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The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
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A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
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The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.
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As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.
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You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.
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You can't just trot out a brown face or a Spanish surname and expect people are going to vote for your party or your candidate.
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We expect our leaders to be godlike. But I feel that when people try to sanctify leadership, it puts it out of the realm of regular people. And that's where the greatest leaders come from - from the people.
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I have this rather amazing report which, roughly speaking, says I was the worst student the biology master had ever taught.
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I think that sometimes kids use the show as a jumping off point for talking about things with their parents.
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What is a body that casts no shadow? Nothing, a formlessness, two-dimensional, a comic-strip character. If I deny my own profound relationship with evil I deny my own reality. I cannot do, or make; I can only undo, unmake.
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Zombies are so popular. There's a lot of chaff out there. For every one person who is legitimately passionate about zombies, there are a hundred people who are thinking, 'Hey, I can make a buck off of this.' The problem is that some of their stuff is so lame.
