Seth Grahame-Smith Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Real power comes not from hate, but from truth.”
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“It was a really strange and unique sort of process for me to adapt my own book.”
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“Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose.”
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“Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do; for I shall not have my best warrior resigned to the service of a man who is fatter than Buddha and duller than the edge of a learning sword.”
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“Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he suffers one tragedy and one setback after another, through sheer force of will, he becomes something extraordinary: not only the president but the person who almost single-handedly united the country.”
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“I like my zombies slow and I like my zombies stupid.”
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“We may all deserve hell, but some of us deserve it sooner than others.”
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“Surely life has taught you that a thing can be both beautiful and vile.”
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“I hereby resolve to kill every vampire in America.”
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“It's absurd to think of 'Pride and Prejudice,' this classic, beloved book, beset with a zombie uprising. The goal is to make you suspend your disbelief enough to allow you to get lost in the story and believe what you're reading for a while.”
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“But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.”
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“Hug your children...Kiss your mothers and fathers, your brothers and sisters. Tell them how much you love them, every day. Because every day is the last day. Every light casts a shadow. And only the gods know when the darkness will find us.”
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“I decided that it was more important to laugh than to eat.”
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“And I like a mouse who has taken a cat for its tutor.”
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“My men have suffered greatly (from boredom), much blood has been shed (by mosquitoes), and I have swung my ax mightily (chopping firewood). Surely we have earned our place in the annals of history—for never has there been so little war in a war.”
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“Her only fault is that she lacks sense enough to avoid falling in love with such a fool as I!”
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“Your quarrel is with God. I merely wish to offer Him the opportunity to judge you.”
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“But I am happy. And happiness, I have decided, is a noble ambition.”
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“And when this intoxication has worn away... when every desire is fulfilled and every language learned- when there are no more distant cities to explore; no classics to be studied; not another coin to be stuffed in to one's coffers- what then? One can have all the comforts of the world, but what use are they if there is no comfort in them?”
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“So I suggest you stick close, pay attention, and avoid breaking the Terrorverse's only commandment: Thou shall not be stupid.”
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“I wouldn't back away from what's right just because it's hard.”
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“Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.”
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“I nearly broke out laughing when the wrteched soothsayer warned Caesar: "Beware the Ides of April." I thought it a miracle (and a relief) that no one in the udience had snickered or yelled out a correction. How could such an error be made by an actor? Had my ears deceived me?”
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“I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect.”
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“I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature.”
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“If a novelist has created vivid characters, interesting relationships, settings the reader can easily imagine, and intriguing stories, a screenwriter has loads to work with. The challenge comes with deciding what to cut and what to keep.”
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“If you're Stephen King and you have a massive body of huge-selling well-respected work, you can pivot and do whatever you want. I don't have that body of work, I don't have that audience that's comfortable with me enough yet to follow my bliss with me.”
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“Movie characters rarely get to think out loud or talk very much about their emotions. Instead they have to, very briefly, show their feelings through their action or through dialog.”
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“My job on 'Dark Shadows' was to make it fun and funny, first and foremost. It can still be dark and it can still even be gory and gothic at times, but it also needed to be fun and it needed to be an experience that people would enjoy having.”
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“So I grew up in a very book-friendly environment and my education as a writer was reading. I think that's the best education. Reading, and taking from the people I admired.”
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