Jonathan Maberry Quotes
With 'Extinction Machine,' I wanted to start some conversations about whether we're alone in the universe and what that might mean.
Quotes to Explore
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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Design firms and progressive companies rely on many of the same tools: rapid prototyping, observational research, creative thinking, collaborative work environments, and multidisciplinary teams.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
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When I was 15, I started playing first class cricket and always dreamt of being a Test cricketer, wanted to do something for the country, married in 1995, have 2 kids it's been great.
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I hope to do big action movies and strong dramas, and to produce films. I also want to get kids more involved in what's going on in the world and to be politically active.
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The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.
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It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.
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I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.
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I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.
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I want to get comfortable with my insecurities until I am no longer insecure. I want to be comfortable in my skin so that I do not need to dump any of my discomfort onto someone else in the form of judgment.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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For me, the labor movement and public education are linked as the essential building blocks to a strong middle class and a path to the American dream. It's why I went to Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations as an undergrad and then to law school.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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There's a place for him, but he's the final determinant as to whether he achieves that or not. He needs to capture the imagination of a universe hungry for decent thought and passion. All he has to do is be truthful and have a vision for what to do and stop playing a goddamn game of politics. If he does that, he'll get everything he needs.
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Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
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In my life, I've had estates in Russia, houses in Spain, in Norway, in the deep south of America.
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Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.
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With 'Extinction Machine,' I wanted to start some conversations about whether we're alone in the universe and what that might mean.
