Jonathan Maberry Quotes
I wrote a novel, Ghost Road Rules, and as soon as it was done and polished, I began reaching out to agents. I ignored the frequent advice to 'shoot low and try for a low-level agent because they're the only ones that will take a flyer on a new author.' That sounded like bad advice to me.
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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I think it must be so hard to start your career with everyone going on about how gorgeous you are. To be in that bracket must be so pressurised.
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You must prune dead or dying wood.
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I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.
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I don't feel under pressure to work because I love what I do and I wanted to do the projects that came my way.
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
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When people are like, 'What do you think of this vampire craze?' - well, I don't really feel like it ever ended, personally, 'cause I've always been into them, like 'Underworld.'
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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When people have lost their jobs or are afraid of losing their jobs in the future, they lash out. They want others to know about their fears, their pain.
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Empty vessels can give nothing more than empty advice
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The ability to be the first African-American painter to paint the first African-American president of the United States is absolutely overwhelming. It doesn't get any better than that.
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In no country are all the people factory owners. The majority are workers.
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We only open a couple of presents on Christmas morning; we're all about the stockings - we even get them for the dogs!
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I wrote a novel, Ghost Road Rules, and as soon as it was done and polished, I began reaching out to agents. I ignored the frequent advice to 'shoot low and try for a low-level agent because they're the only ones that will take a flyer on a new author.' That sounded like bad advice to me.
