Max Brooks Quotes
You can watch 'Dawn of the Dead' and still sleep at night. Try that with 'The Day After'.
Quotes to Explore
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You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
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To deal with what you have to deal with as mayor or president, there has to be an overriding psychological or professional or emotional gratification that would let you go through all the angst.
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People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.
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This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.
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There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
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As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
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A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
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At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
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As an actor, you arrive most of the time at the last minute. You arrive at the end of the process, but you don't realize it.
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Each of my books is different from the last, each with its own characters, its own setting, its own themes. As a writer, I need the variety. I sense my readers do, too.
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As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some of our memory to them. We would ask questions, and our machines would give oracular - or supremely practical - replies.
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I think for diners, it is about crafting an identity around food which we have not really had in a mainstream way in this country. So there is a mass movement of people who identify themselves through their food preferences or even just that they prioritize food - that's where we get this idea of being a foodie.
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Making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg. It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.
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There is an unwritten social rule now that you can harangue the wealthy to give money away, but you mustn't ask how the money was made. There are no galas celebrating the money people knew better than to seek. Charity begins after profit.
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I'm afraid Dr. Mondrick chose an unfortunate publicity device. After all, the theory of human evolution is no longer front page news. Every known detail of the origin of mankind is extremely important to such a specialist as Dr. Mondrick, but it doesn't interest the man in the street - not unless it's dramatized.
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This festival is amazing. I've wanted to come here for so long, and to be here for just a night is torture.
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You can watch 'Dawn of the Dead' and still sleep at night. Try that with 'The Day After'.
