Max Brooks Quotes

If I knew anything about what people wanted and was popular, I'd still be writing for 'Saturday Night Live'. I can only write what I want, and hopefully people will like it.

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• I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Girl
  • Fighting
  • Little

• My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud of me, and clearly my artistic bent comes from her.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Mother
  • Age
  • Learning

• 'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Challenge
  • Envy
  • Smooth

• Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Trying
  • American
  • Environment

• I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Hockey
  • Speed
  • Size

• Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

  

  E. B. White
  • People
  • Like
  • Humor

• I love sailing but hate cruise ships.

  

  Garrett Neff
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Sailing

• That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Support
  • Government
  • Period

• When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Me

• Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Water
  • Memory
  • Fish

• I take a lot of pictures.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Take
  • Pictures
  • Lot

• Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Time
  • Kids
  • True

• Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • People
  • Think
  • Violence

• Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Style
  • Hair
  • Dress

• I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • Government
  • Responsibility

• The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Nature
  • Rest
  • Wealth

• I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Marriage
  • Talent
  • Genius

• I have an appearance on a new TV show called 'Bar Karma' on Current TV. I had the most fun ever making this episode. I play someone with a multiple personality, and I think my fans will be surprised and get a real giggle out of it. It's a new model for TV in that it is interactive with the community.

  

  Genie Francis
  • Real
  • Fun
  • Community

• In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork.

  

  Brad Holland
  • People
  • Art
  • America

• A good rant is cathartic. Ranting is what keeps me sane. They always come from a different place. Take the prime minister, for example. Sometimes when I rant about him, I am angry; other times, I am just severely annoyed-it's an important distinction.

  

  Rick Mercer
  • Different
  • Important
  • Sometimes

• I always had acting work when I needed it. I think that is why, when I watch films or TV series in America, I find in small roles or in supporting roles really amazing faces, where I have the feeling these people have actually had a life outside of acting. I find it almost a pity that I've never done anything else.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I think gay people are like blondes: There're fewer of them but they have more fun.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Fun

• If I knew anything about what people wanted and was popular, I'd still be writing for 'Saturday Night Live'. I can only write what I want, and hopefully people will like it.

  

  Max Brooks
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