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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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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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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Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
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J'allais sous le ciel, Muse! et j'étais ton féal.
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When you're CEO, you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job.
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I'm still waiting to hit it big. But there was the moment when I didn't have to work at the restaurant anymore, which is the milestone for every actor. When your job is just to be an actor and not to have to do anything else.
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The commerce of intellect loves distant shores. The small retail dealer trades only with his neighbor; when the great merchant trades he links the four quarters of the globe.
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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.'
