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I would much prefer their minds to be engaged in the deadly arts than clouded with dreams of marriage and fortune, as your own so clearly is!
Seth Grahame-Smith
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Seth Grahame-Smith
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: January 4
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Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to shoot each other. In reality the things that fascinated me were how absolutely ruthless and violent so many engagements were, how much suffering and how men were not prepared.
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However, it has long been said that my enemy's enemy is my friend.
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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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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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Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.
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What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.
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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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The day Henry made a choice... that some men are just too interesting to die.
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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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If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.
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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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Real power... comes not from hate, but from truth.
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Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?
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On the contrary, there is something pleasing about his mouth when he speaks. And there is something of dignity in the way his trousers cling to those most English parts of him.
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I always say that the characters in Jane Austen's original books are rather like zombies because they live in this bubble of immense wealth and privilege and no matter what's going on around them they have a singular purpose to maintain their rank and to impress others.
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Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see
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Of all the weapons she had commanded, Elizabeth knew the least of love and of all the weapons in the world, love was the most dangerous.
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I like my zombies slow and I like my zombies stupid.
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And I like a mouse who has taken a cat for its tutor.
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Abraham, he said. I'm pleased to see you alive, old friend. And I to see you dead.
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