Zombie Quotes - Page 8

• 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.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Book, Character, Purpose

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• The strangest thing is at tea breaks, or coffee breaks or lunch, you forget you're a zombie. And you're talking about politics to somebody at the table and you forget that you have a bullet hole in your forehead.

  Billy Connolly

  Coffee, Talking, Lunch

  "Billy Connolly Is Fido!". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. June 17, 2007.

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• A zombie apocalypse isn't the most jovial situation.

  Danai Gurira

  Apocalypse, Situation, Jovial

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• I can't say I was like a die-hard zombie fan, but I've definitely seen a few different zombie movies and TV shows.

  Dave Franco

  Tv Shows, Fans, Different

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Zombies, what are you going to do with them? Just keep chopping them up, shooting at them, shooting at them.

  Martin Scorsese

  Shooting, Chopping

  "Martin Scorsese on Raging Bull II (?!) and Why He Prefers Vampires to Zombies". Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. April 5, 2012.

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• I think the general anxiety of the 1960s - '70s spawned our interest in the living dead. When people worry about the end of their world, they need a safe vessel for all their fears. Zombies provide that vessel because they're 'safe.

  Max Brooks

  Thinking, People, Worry

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• I am a huge zombie fan. I have probably seen the George Romero movies 100 times each, without exaggeration.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Fans, Exaggeration, Huge

  "Masters of SciFi – An Interview With Screenwriter J Michael Straczynski". AMC Interview, www.amc.com.

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• When I started writing, there was nothing about zombies. It was all teen movies, which to me are scarier than zombies, but that's another story.

  Max Brooks

  Writing, Stories

  "'I’m Just A Zombie Nerd' The Max Brooks Interview, Part One". Interview with Allie Townsend, techland.time.com. July 15, 2010.

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• I happen to like vampires more than zombies.

  Martin Scorsese

  Vampire, Happens

  "Martin Scorsese on Raging Bull II (?!) and Why He Prefers Vampires to Zombies". Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. April 5, 2012.

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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.

  Max Brooks

  Memories, Trying, Window

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• Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.

  Max Brooks

  School, Protection, Undead

  Max Brooks (2003). “The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead”, p.79, Broadway Books

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• During the Qin Dynasty, all books not relating to practical concerns such as agriculture or construction were ordered burned by the emperor to guard against "dangerous thought." Whether accounts of zombie attacks perished in the flames will never be known. This obscure section of a medical manuscript, preserved in the wall of an executed Chinese scholar, might be proof of such attacks.

  Max Brooks

  Wall, Book, Flames

  Max Brooks (2003). “The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead”, p.186, Broadway Books

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• My zombies will never take over the world because I need the humans. The humans are the ones I dislike the most, and they're where the trouble really lies.

  George A. Romero

  Lying, World, Needs

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• I think that all stories - if you make movies about zombies and aliens - it has always to do with your personal story. If not directly, it is about your fears, your obsessions, things like that.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Thinking, Stories, Aliens

  "Marjane Satrapi: Superman is Boring, Batman is Hot, Dictators Are Clueless". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. August 13, 2012.

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• Something coming back from the dead was almost always bad news. Movies taught me that. For every one Jesus you get a million zombies.

  David Wong

  Jesus, News, Taught

  David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.311, Titan Books

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• When life gives you lemons, throw them at the zombies.

  Bruce Campbell

  Giving, If Life Gives You Lemons, Life Gives You Lemons

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• You can make a global film, which affects so many countries and affects sort of this worldwide epidemic, but it has, zombies are great metaphors for the times we live in today and that's what I always find fascinating about them, but then it's like the walking dead, you know, the unconscious, and the metaphors for them are just really something I was inspired by.

  Marc Forster

  Country, Epidemics, Walking Dead

  Source: collider.com

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• Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?

  Gilles Deleuze

  Drug, Harness, Dazed

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• Not really a party until someone brings the surprise zombies.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Party, Surprise

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Covenant”, p.411, Simon and Schuster

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• I'd never consciously left home to see a zombie movie. They were fine by me, but I had no intention of ever being in one. But I've been learning more about it as I've been doing interviews. I didn't even know there were specialist zombie magazines and clubs. I heard the other day that a radio station had asked people if they`d made preparations for an attack by zombies, and a staggering number of people replied yes!

  Billy Connolly

  Home, Numbers, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.

  Roddy Doyle

  Book, Vampire, Fiction

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• I like Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory because some children deserve to be taken to a chocolate factory and tortured. I like Dawn of the dead because you don't normally get to kill all of the zombies hanging out at the mall.

  Doug Benson

  Children, Taken, Chocolate

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• I am a total zombie just after I wake up. It takes me half an hour even to get my eyes open. Ask anyone who knows me. I can't see; I can't talk properly; I can't do anything without help. The only think I can do properly is think. And I know how to exploit my condition. I've had years of practice.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Eye, Thinking, Years

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• He rose to his feet and padded down the last few steps silently, came up behind Kim, and leaned over her to say, “I vant to drink your blood” in a heavy, fake Dracula accent. She shrieked, flailed, and a zombie ate her brains on-screen."!

  Rachel Caine

  Blood, Feet, Rose

  Rachel Caine (2009). “Fade Out: The Morganville Vampires”, p.75, Penguin

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• That,' he said, with almost religious fever, 'was the coolest thing you have ever done. In fact, that may have been the coolest thing you ever will do. Your entire existence has been moving toward one shining moment, George, and that was the moment when you thought, 'Hey, why don't I just go over the zombies?

  Mira Grant

  Religious, Moving, Shining

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