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.Jonathan Maberry
Quotes to Explore
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
Gail Simmons -
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.
E. M. Forster -
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.
Queen Latifah -
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.
Haniel Long -
During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
Rachel McAdams -
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.
Laura Carmichael
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You must prune dead or dying wood.
Warren Giles -
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.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
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.
Olivia Williams -
There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
O. Henry -
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.
Mahatma Gandhi -
You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
Jack Nicholson
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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.
Fiona Apple -
I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
Becki Newton -
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.
Yakov Smirnoff -
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.'
Kat Graham -
There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
J. Tillman -
That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
Vicki Lawrence
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'American Idol' was just really a platform. What you do after that is what separates you from the show. And I've been working really hard, touring constantly, and building those fans. You've got to work hard.
Phillip Phillips -
I just feel really fortunate to build a career as a writer.
Pippa Middleton -
I believe in an America where the free enterprise system flourishes for all other systems to see and admire - where no businessman lacks either competition or credit - and where no monopoly, no racketeer, no government bureaucracy can put him out of business that he built up with his own initiative.
John F. Kennedy -
Learn early, learn often.
Drew Houston -
I know a movie and a book are two different things and you are going do different media in different ways. No author can want a movie to be exactly like the book because then it will be a bad movie.
Katherine Paterson -
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.
Jonathan Maberry