Annalee Newitz Quotes
Max Brooks' novel 'World War Z' is one of the greatest zombie stories ever written, partly for reasons that make it basically unfilmable.
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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When I watch Rumble Johnson, he's a bully. He bullies guys. He makes them go backward, and he traps them. I'm not going to allow that. If he tries to bully me, I'll stand right in front of him, and if he hits me, I'll hit him right back. And then we'll see how the bully handles it when nobody is going to run away from him.
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I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
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Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it's the fact that there is no trust.
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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When you go to jail, there's so much simple stuff missing. You just want some good toilet paper or a real toothbrush, a real blanket and a real bed to lay in.
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Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in 'win now' mode.
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You cannot underestimate people's ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. It's a big reason why so many companies that have dipped a toe in social media waters have failed miserably.
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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
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The failure is the man who stays down when he falls.
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I'm just trying to make the point that the story we're telling ourselves is often very different from the story we're telling the people around us.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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They said it was against the rules to take sides on a controversial issue. I said, 'I wish you had told me that during World War II, when I took sides against Hitler.
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It is impossible to account for the creation of the universe without the agency of a Supreme Being.
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Max Brooks' novel 'World War Z' is one of the greatest zombie stories ever written, partly for reasons that make it basically unfilmable.
