Jonathan Maberry Quotes
I have been an Avengers fan since the middle 1960s. I grew up with them, and I've imagined a hundred different versions of an Avengers movie. I think I even have a script I wrote back in eighth grade, 'Avengers vs. the Mole Man.' Truly dreadful, but a work of love.
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If other people want to say that I'm the next person in boxing, then that's up to them. That's their opinion.
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.
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What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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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 success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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I learned that instead of relying on and imitating American music, there is a better chance for an Asian artist to succeed if he or she follows his or her own culture.
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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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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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.
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Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
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As a model, it's a gypsy kind of life: living in hotels, working all the time, ordering room service instead of cooking for yourself. There's absolutely no nest-building.
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When I began my work on how morality varies across the political spectrum, there was a partisan, manipulative element to it. I wanted to help the Democrats win.
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I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.
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I have been an Avengers fan since the middle 1960s. I grew up with them, and I've imagined a hundred different versions of an Avengers movie. I think I even have a script I wrote back in eighth grade, 'Avengers vs. the Mole Man.' Truly dreadful, but a work of love.
