Jonathan Maberry Quotes
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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
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I'm a big 'Firefly' fan. I'm a Nathan Fillion fan because of 'Firefly.'
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
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My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.
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Anytime I listen to my gut and I don't do something, or I do, it always tends to work out in my favor.
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I keep trying to convince people that I'm OK to wrestle, and I think that's probably the hard part. A lot of times I'm trying to convince myself, too, that I can wrestle. It's really hard, because the concussion issue is very subjective, and that's the part that a lot of people don't understand.
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I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.
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I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
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I love New York. I'm working on Broadway, and it's a great way for me to get my feet wet in acting and a great way to season yourself as a performer.
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I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.
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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.
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Harry Potter is awesome.
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I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.
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Don't keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason.
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I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.
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When I was a boy in Salem, Mass., in the 1950s, if you wanted to buy a book, you had to take a train to Boston. And when you got there, to a bookstore, there was no such thing as a science-fiction section.
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I think that the status that you have in life should be reflected in official documents. If you are married, fine, if you are living with someone, fine, if you are single, fine. We don't want to tell people how to live their lives.
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If you're doing an animated comedy on the same channel as 'South Park,' no one can really tell you anything. The bar has been set so high.
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I love weird science. I love weird action. I love weird characters.