Max Brooks Quotes
I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, 'I was a rich kid, and America's been good to me.'
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
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We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
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Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down.
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People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.
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You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
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The whole concept of witches was that women were speaking up for themselves and fighting for their rights. The whole concept of witchcraft came into play to hold down women and women's empowerment.
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Eventually, before I die, I hope to have written about every part I've played.
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When Nandita expressed a desire to write about me, I couldn't stop her because she's my wife, but she has forgotten who she is.
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The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.
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Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set.
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Silos and bureaucracy are well-oiled machines in corporate America, but they are ultimately perpetuated by individual behavior. If we start behaving differently, we can create change. In other words, shifting your focus onto the team - or the ship as a whole, not just yourself - will have meaningful impact.
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Unfortunately, celebrity is a powerful thing. It can influence people, but if it can influence people in a good way, then that's a great thing.
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I hate mice. The mouse involves you in arm motions that slow you down. I didn't want it on the Macintosh, but Jobs insisted. In those days, what he said went, good idea or not.
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It's like the code of living by yourself. People who are single know what I'm talking about. You eat standing up, reading the paper. Or you say to yourself, this isn't even cutting it, I'm taking a TV dinner and I'm getting in bed here.
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I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, 'I was a rich kid, and America's been good to me.'
