Jonathan Maberry Quotes
I don't aspire to write like Steve King. Sure, I admire his work, and I think he's a hell of a nice guy; we met shortly after my first Stoker win. I aspire to write like Jonathan Maberry.
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them.
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
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As the platform and protocol become more ingrained in society, get built into products and services, and basically become more of the mesh of society, just like the Internet, companies and people will need to own Bitcoin to play on its rails.
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When I was a kid, I was super shy.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
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Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.
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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.
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In films of terror, it's often not about being graphic. Or if there is a graphic image, it's extremely swift. Everyone talks about the shower scene in 'Psycho,' but that's the only graphic scene in the entire film.
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I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That's why I got into fostering and adopting animals out.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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I do think that one needs to have respect for people who are older. And I really do love the idea that one can respect generations.
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I don't aspire to write like Steve King. Sure, I admire his work, and I think he's a hell of a nice guy; we met shortly after my first Stoker win. I aspire to write like Jonathan Maberry.
