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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It's a false proposition that we have to take the arts away to fund something else.
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There isn't a comedian in the world that hasn't bombed.
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'Bonfire' was kicking around for a very long time. It was an idea I wanted to explore for a television show. Then I was given this weird gift of time when 'Jessica Jones' finished season one. I got really organized and just kind of banged it out, but it took a long time. It took two years to even have a first draft.
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There's a potter that lived back in the 1800s, in Biloxi, Mississippi, and his name was George Ohr. He was of Russian descent, but they called him the "Mad Potter of Biloxi." I'd love to do a great character study and comedy about that guy's life. That would be my dream role. I know it's an oddball thing, but it's true. He lived at the turn of the century, in the 1800s.
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When people start to think they're figuring out 'The Vampire Diaries,' it switches on you.
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I love weird science. I love weird action. I love weird characters.