Jonathan Maberry Quotes
'Bad Blood' tells the story of Trick, a teenage slacker on the losing side of a fight with cancer. When he's attacked by a vampire, he figures it's game over. Except that the chemo drugs in Trick's blood poison the vampire.
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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There is always pressure in football.
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Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.
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No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.
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I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.
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I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.
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My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.
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Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
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One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
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I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.
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If you're in a conversation with me, the last thing I'll probably say when I'm walking away is, 'Thank you and sorry.'
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Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
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Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
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That's my business, show business.
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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
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Do you know who the upright of heart are? They are those who wish what God wishes. Therefore, do not try to twist God's will to you own but correct your will to that of God. The will of God is a rule of conduct. By it you have the means of being converted and of correcting your evil ways.
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There's a misunderstanding that I've always tried to address straight on when this question comes up, which is that a 'Half-Life' story can somehow exist outside of a game. It can't. The story is created through the process of trying to figure out how to best use the features of the engine within the interesting set of constraints it poses.
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My first inkling that I might have a yen for directing came when I realized I enjoyed creating plays for my various sports teams more than I actually liked playing the game.
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'Bad Blood' tells the story of Trick, a teenage slacker on the losing side of a fight with cancer. When he's attacked by a vampire, he figures it's game over. Except that the chemo drugs in Trick's blood poison the vampire.
