Max Brooks Quotes

If I thought there was any hope of turning 'World War Z' into a movie, I wouldn't have written it as a giant, epic, global story, because that requires a giant, epic, global budget.

Max Brooks

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I saw an ad for an expensive car and got so excited about it, I called the dealer. 'How are those new cars?' I asked. 'They're fine,' he said. I thought he'd offer to let me drive it for a weekend. He didn't. I expected a salesman to call. No one did. I didn't buy the car.

Stanley Marcus

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I don't look at my work in a critical or analytical way; I just don't think of myself objectively. It doesn't interest me.

Tom Stoppard

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As far as I know, no tapes exist from my years at 'T.J.'s.' I wish they did.

Ronnie Milsap

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Time is a finite resource.

Rumaan Alam

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I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read and reread a poem so many times that it simply drills itself into your head.

Michel Houellebecq

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Anyone who takes the Bible seriously agrees that God hates suffering. Jesus spent most of his time relieving it. But when being healed becomes the only goal - 'I'm not letting go until I get what I want' - it's a problem.

Joni Eareckson Tada

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John and I had a few meetings about what direction the sequel should take. I made some real insane suggestions. True to what you'd expect, he ignored them all and just picked up Halloween II where the original left off.

Donald Pleasence

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When I was a kid, I wanted to be serious, like Daniel Day-Lewis. No one really dreams of being a comic actor, do they? Now I realise how stupid that is - and it's because comic acting isn't taken seriously enough. It's a discipline. You know instantly - either you're funny and getting the laughs, or you're not.

Chris O'Dowd

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Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals until they happen to do it right because they don't really know what you want.

Bruce Greenwood

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Work hard! In the end, passion and hard work beats out natural talent.

Pete Docter

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I'm sure one reason I became an actor is my basic unwillingness to live one life.

Scott Glenn

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Whether it's in Washington, or whether it's with the mothers of extremists, or whether it's education in places like Pakistan... a lot of women in these emerging countries are taking charge and doing amazing things.

Tina Brown

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