Jonathan Maberry Quotes
My 'Rot & Ruin' series is a post-apocalyptic adventure for teens. My 'Joe Ledger' novels are science-based action thrillers for adults. My 'Dead of Night' stories are zombie tales for adults; my 'Pine Deep Trilogy' is classic horror for adults, and I've written nonfiction books on topics ranging from martial arts to folklore.
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.
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Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.
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My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
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If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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I want to reach as many women throughout the world as I can.
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Man, y'know, I'm a music guy. I like a lot of different things. It depends on the time of the day and the situation.
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At the U.N., I routinely encounter countries that do not want to impose sanctions or even to enforce those already on the books. The hard-line sanctions skeptics have their own self-interested reasons for opposing sanctions, but they ground their opposition in claims that America uses sanctions to inflict punishment for punishment's sake.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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I tell fans who ask me why I'm not doing comedy anymore that I'm a different person. I've grown and I've matured. I've made a transition to where I really want to be.
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If I get incensed about some injustice, you can't make me – I will not just going to sit at my desk, at my computer all the time. I – I might want to march out on that.
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The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.
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The tricky thing is music is supposed to be very mysterious; the way it's made is mysterious. Then people like to get upset with the music business.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.
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One of the magical things about these anthropomorphic animal movies is that we can take things that are so common in our own world that we deal with, like the DMV, or moving to a new city, or our family, and show you a mirror image of those things, reflected in a whole new way. That's why animals are great.
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If you live in Israel and you see the way life is there and then you go abroad and see the way Israel is reported on, the way that Israel gets reported on night after night is simply pictures of bombings or military actions.
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If someone told me I had to give back, or I'm supposed to give back, or I'm supposed to do these things, I would reject that. My actions are those of valuing and caring.
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To tell you the truth, there are all these websites predicting my early death, and it's starting to work on me!
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My 'Rot & Ruin' series is a post-apocalyptic adventure for teens. My 'Joe Ledger' novels are science-based action thrillers for adults. My 'Dead of Night' stories are zombie tales for adults; my 'Pine Deep Trilogy' is classic horror for adults, and I've written nonfiction books on topics ranging from martial arts to folklore.
