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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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
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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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I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.
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If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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When I was in casting, we would bring somebody in, have them read their lines, maybe give them a few pointers, and hire them, and then once they go to the set and you have a director who's directing them, that performance may not be anywhere near what you had in the audition, either good or bad.
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History, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political and moral precedents.
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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.'
