Max Brooks Quotes
Zombies let us explore notions of the apocalypse - no water, food, medical care, the government imploding - while letting us sleep at night.
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Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.
Malorie Blackman
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I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I'm not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.
Maggie Smith
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Everyone freaks out because my character is the only one who has shorts on the Galactica. Well, that is because I went and grabbed a pair of pants and scissors and cut them off and gave her shorts.
Katee Sackhoff
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What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.
Octavia Spencer
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
Sally Mann
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I'm not in a position to go back into public service.
Jack Keane
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
Gaby Hoffmann
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Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive role models. We were never supposed to write negative things about gays, or else we were seen as collaborating with the enemy.
Edmund White
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
Edmund Wilson
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We are facing extreme volatility.
Carlos Ghosn
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It's very special having a new little girl.
Kate Middleton
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Russia and China completely disagree with the international order that was established after World War II, and they're trying to take it apart right before our eyes.
Jack Keane
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I know about the tech industry in that I follow what apps are hot and software development. I know my way around different browsers. I know how to restart a computer.
T. J. Miller
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Too often, campaigns are all flash and no substance.
Gary Herbert
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I'm pleased the committee recommended no action, as I know I did nothing wrong.
Karen McCarthy
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My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother.
Natasha Trethewey
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I am honoured and excited to be taking on the role of chairman of the British Fashion Council.
Natalie Massenet
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I have only one counsel for you - be master.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get back on their feet when they are down and out and laid off through no fault of their own.
Hank Johnson
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I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it.
Margaret Halsey
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I expressed myself through hyperactivity and disruption. I wanted to play rather than study.
Ashraf Barhom
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Zombies let us explore notions of the apocalypse - no water, food, medical care, the government imploding - while letting us sleep at night.
Max Brooks