Max Brooks Quotes

I think the general anxiety of the 1960s - '70s spawned our interest in the living dead. When people worry about the end of their world, they need a safe vessel for all their fears. Zombies provide that vessel because they're 'safe.'

Max Brooks

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PeopleWorldThinkEndAnxietyNeed

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

John W. Gardner

LifeExcellenceManSurviveFree

One way to make a positive out of a negative is that you can put it into your work.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

PositiveWorkNegativeYouWayOut

Each of us knows a few or several young people whose lives have been devastated by cancer. I don't mean to be nihilistic about it, but it is very much an active killer of people now.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

PeopleYoungNowMeanActiveCancer

L.A.'s cool; I had a run with it to where it just pretty much wore me out. I love the weather and I have great friends there, great family, but I really cannot take a lot of the culture. Like Nashville, where everybody's a songwriter, everybody out there is an actor.

Shooter Jennings

FamilyLoveGreatCultureMeCool

I moved around 13 different times before I was in fifth grade, not having money, not having a lot of friends.

Tonya Harding

MoneyFriendsDifferentAroundMoved

With 'House of Cards,' you really get the heart and the meat of drama - and it's a thriller!

Robin Wright

HeartYouHouseCardsDramaMeat

Women always want to be what they're not: If you're the pretty girl, you want to be the quirky girl. If you're the smart girl, you want to be the pretty girl.

Jordana Brewster

WomenGirlSmartYouWantQuirky

I always try to design fashion that is interesting and innovative, and I like to break traditions and challenge people's expectations.

Jonathan Anderson

ChallengePeopleFashionExpectations

We had no money, my dad was out of work a lot, and we never owned a house. It was very hand-to-mouth.

Johnny Flynn

WorkMoneyHouseNeverOutVery

The only thing I wish I had kept were all the peace beads, because in the 1960s people made these and hung them at protests and it was a wonderful thing.

David Selby

PeacePeopleWishI WishWonderful

I want to play Martin Luther King. That is absolutely a role and a character who is important to the landscape of the world that I really want to play.

Columbus Short

CharacterKingWorldLandscapePlay

If you play well, win, don't change too much. But when you don't play well, lose, you have to give the opportunity to the other players.

Claudio Ranieri

ChangeOpportunityWinYouLose

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