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• Elizabeth lifted her skirt, disregarding modesty, and delivered a swift kick to the creature's head.

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  Skirts, Modesty, Kicks

  Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, p.33, Quirk Books

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• This is a most unfortunate affair, and will probably be much talked of. But we must stem the tide of idle chatter, and pour into our wounded bosoms the soothing balm of vengeance.

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  Idle Chatter, Tides, Vengeance

  Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen, Roberto Parada (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance--now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem”, p.262, Chronicle Books

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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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  Mouths, Way, Dignity

  Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, p.231, Quirk Books

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• No ninjas! How was that possible? Five daughters brought up at home without any ninjas! I never heard of such a thing. Your mother must have been quite a slave to your safety.

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  Daughter, Mother, Home

  Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, p.145, Quirk Books

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• My sisters and I cannot spend any substantial time searching for Wickham, as we are each commanded by His Majesty to defend Hertfordshire from all enemies until such time as we are dead, rendered lame, or married.

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  Enemy, Lame, Majesty

  Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, p.252, Quirk Books

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• I want to be judged harshly because that forces me to really sit down and focus.

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  Focus, Want, Down And

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• I've always enjoyed reading history, particularly presidential biographies.

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  Reading, Presidential, Biographies

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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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  Thinking, Interesting, Long

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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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  Errors, Laughing, Miracle

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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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  Men, Faces, Knows

  Seth Grahame-Smith (2010). “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”, p.47, Hachette UK

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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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  Writing, Dark, Wicked

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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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  Believe, Book, Reading

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• I hereby resolve to kill every vampire in America.

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  America, Vampire, Resolve

  Seth Grahame-Smith (2010). “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”, p.46, Hachette UK

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• Surely life has taught you that a thing can be both beautiful and vile.

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  Beautiful, Taught

  Seth Grahame-Smith (2010). “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”, p.172, Hachette UK

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• We may all deserve hell, but some of us deserve it sooner than others.

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  May, Hell, Deserve

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• I like my zombies slow and I like my zombies stupid.

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  Stupid, Zombie

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• I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history.

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  Reading, Biographies, Horror Fans

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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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  Confused, Character, Track

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• If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.

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  Fall, Writing, Tricks

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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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  War, Reality, Men

  "Modern Gothic Master Seth Grahame-Smith Talks ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,’ ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,’ ‘Dark Shadows’". Interview with Maggie Lange, www.indiewire.com. June 12, 2012.

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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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  Character, Views, Stories

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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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  Book, Reading, Thinking

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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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  Jobs, Fun, Dark

  "Seth Grahame-Smith Exclusive Interview THE HARD TIMES OF RJ BERGER; Updates on DARK SHADOWS, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES, and ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 24, 2011.

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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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  Character, Thinking, Feelings

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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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  Kings, Body, Want

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