"I am glad it's [California novel] resonated with people because, for me, most apocalyptic novels aren't scary, because they feel so very far off."

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Edan Lepucki

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“When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.”
“Now, I love playing moms who can't hide their paranoia.”

Source : "Q&A with ‘What to Expect..." star Wendi McLendon-Covey". Interview with Lauren McCutcheon, www.philly.com. May 18, 2012.
“Believers are often thought of as people who have some kind of private conviction or repudiation of something, whereas "the faithful" refers to a relationship, which was also incidentally the earlier sense of "faith" in premodern, preliberal Christianity. This is not to say, incidentally, that "faith" refers simply to external behavior as opposed to internal belief but that it refers to an act.”
“The more I learned about games, the more frustrated I became because the games weren't very good. I could tell a good game from a bad game. My conclusion was: let's make our own games.”

Source : "The Ultimate Game Freak". Time Magazine Interview (Volume 154, No. 20), content.time.com. November 22, 1999.
“Fashion is just a name for one of the things that happen where mind and body intersect.”
“I was a last round draft pick. Nobody wanted me. I could count the amount of scouts that told me to go to school, to forget baseball.”
“Do less; observe more; enjoy most.”
“Sooner or later even the most ambitious glutton must crawl away and seek the solace of the vomitorium.”

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