Max Brooks Quotes
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.
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During past years, like frightened children, we were afraid to eat the strong meat of human rights and instead sucked the milk of civil rights from the breasts of white liberals, black Uncle Toms, and Aunt Jemimas.
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My whole plan in my head has always been, if I go a year without acting, it's time to go home; it's time to go back to Montreal.
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At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!
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The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
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By the time we reached Virginia City I was considered a remarkable good shot and a fearless rider for a girl of my age.
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God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
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Because of a great love, one is courageous.
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Each morning, you dress to become a different woman. Fashion helps.
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I love putting people to work of color.
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One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.
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Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself.
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People question what I thought of Oxford. Students used to talk about the 'Oxford bubble' because the place can make you feel cut off from the rest of the world. I would forget there were places like London that were not centred round libraries and essays.
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I don't know what a supermodel is. If they call me that, I might have to punch them. It's just so vain and so unreal.
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I hear beyond the range of sound, I see beyond the range of sight,New earths and skies and seas around, And in my day the sun doth pale his light.
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Nothing that's forced can ever be right, if it doesn't come naturally, leave it.
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'A Christmas Story' has become such a special part of the holiday season for so many families.
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You see a Party system that crushes down anybody who has different opinions, who has different ideas in their mind. Simply to have different opinions can cost someone their life. They can be put in jail, they can be silenced, and they can disappear. And the other people would take it, not giving support.
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Grinding is a mindset and a willingness and commitment to work at it.
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I don’t write things to benefit the world. If it happens that they do, swell. I didn’t set out to do that. I set out to have a hell of a lot of fun.
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The opening bombardment took out at least three-quarters of them. Only three-quarters.
