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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I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
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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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Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.
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I used to be a huge fan of 'Lockup' on MSNBC, and that certainly has helped with my understanding of the world.
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Those numbers ay not sound like a bid deal until one reflects that average global temperatures were 'only' 5 degrees cooler at the height of the last Ice Age.
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Hearts are worn in these dark ages;You're not alone in this story's pages.Night has fallen amongst the living and the dying,And I try to hold it in, yeah I try to hold it in.
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You can watch 'Dawn of the Dead' and still sleep at night. Try that with 'The Day After'.
