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What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.
Seth Grahame-Smith
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Seth Grahame-Smith
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: January 4
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Seth Jared Greenberg
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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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But I am happy. And happiness, I have decided, is a noble ambition.
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Of all the weapons in the world, love is the most dangerous.
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Some novels present a story form many points of view. Most movies tell only one person's side of the story. Sometime it's easy to use the strongest point of view, or find the character with the most dramatic experience. It depends on which themes the scriptwriter wants to explore.
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America is thataway, Mr. Lincoln, laughed Davis, pointing north. You're in Mississippi now.
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The true roll in determing to embrace or reject anything is not whether it have any evil in it but whether it have more of evil than of good. There are few things wholly evil or wholly good.
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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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It was a sort of peace I have rarely enjoyed since. As if we were the only two souls on earth—all of nature ours to enjoy. I wondered why a creator who had dreamt such beauty would have slandered it with such evil. Such grief. Why He had not been content to leave it unspoilt. I still wonder.
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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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However, it has long been said that my enemy's enemy is my friend.
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We may all deserve hell, but some of us deserve it sooner than others.
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I feel like the luckiest guy on the planet. But, I literally work all day, every day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, and that's not an exaggeration.
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Father may have been wanting in some things, but here he was masterful. Night upon night, I marveled at his power to hold listeners in rapt attention. He could tell a story with such detail, such flourish, that afterwards a man could swear it had been his own memory, and not a tale at all.
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I hereby resolve to kill every vampire in America.
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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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I like my zombies slow and I like my zombies stupid.
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I think zombies have always been an easy metaphor for hard times. Because they're this big, faceless, brainless group of evil things that will work tirelessly to destroy you and think of nothing else.
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The bottom half of the page had descended into a doodle of a tiny man giving the middle finger to a giant, angry eagle with razor-sharp talons. Beneath it, the caption: To Mock a Killing Bird.
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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 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!
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