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Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.

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Max Brooks
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: May 22
Author
Comedian
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Manhattan borough
New York City
Maximillian Michael Brooks
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Fear

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I think Americans are at our best when we recover from a crisis. We've suffered some blows that other countries would have never recovered from.
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That's the thing about zombies. They don't adapt and they don't think. Literally, you could have a zombie on one side of a chain link fence and you could be on the other side and they could be trying to get to you and six feet down could be an open door and they will not go through that door in the fence. That's why they're so scary.
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Zombies have no memories of their former life. You wont see the undead trying to wash windows or do your taxes. All they know how to do is swarm and feed.
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Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used.
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You can watch 'Dawn of the Dead' and still sleep at night. Try that with 'The Day After'.
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There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.
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Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.
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I think 'G.I. Joe' is a perfect example of how I'm the world's worst businessman. If I were smart, I'd be writing 'World War Z Part 12', but I have to go where the muse leads, and I've always been a huge 'G.I. Joe' fan. I always wanted to know more about these characters, these little plastic figures I played with as a kid.
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Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.
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Zombies don't run. They don't dance. They don't say, More brains. There is no Thriller Night. Those are stereotypes that are perpetrated by Hollywood, which I think is very irresponsible because it can get you killed.
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You can't blame anyone else, ... , no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices.
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I remember I used to come up to my teacher crying because I couldn't read. She would say: 'You can do this. You just don't want to do this.
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Hooking on scuba gear and blindly diving into zombie-infested water is a wonderful way to mix the two childhood terrors of being eaten and drowning.
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Zombies let us explore notions of the apocalypse - no water, food, medical care, the government imploding - while letting us sleep at night.
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Since 2001, people have been scared. There's been some really scary stuff that's been happening - 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, anthrax letters, D.C. sniper, global warming, global financial meltdown, bird flu, swine flu, SARS. I think people really feel like the system's breaking down.
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When I believe in my ability to do something, there is no such word as no.
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Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe.
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Whatever bro, tell it to the whales
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They say great times make great men. I don't buy it. I saw a lot of weakness, a lot of filth. People who should have risen to the challenge and either couldn't or wouldn't. Greed, fear, stupidity and hate. I saw it before the war, I see it today. [...] I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.
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