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I actually wrote my first zombie book way before I got the job on 'Saturday Night Live.

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Max Brooks
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: May 22
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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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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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Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.
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