Dan Chaon Quotes
Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone else's eyes, and it allows you to try to empathize with situations that you haven't actually experienced.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Nothing exists except through language.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.
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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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It's always interesting about God because it's like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
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By giving your feelings a name, you're identifying how you feel.
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Don't do a startup unless you're ideologically driven to make it succeed beyond the economic motivation.
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I loved Veronica right off the bat. She was so strong and I think it is so important because there are so few shows that portray women, especially young women, as being strong and being able to stand up for themselves.
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To awaken quite alone in a strange town, is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.
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I'm not much of a preparer. I think sometimes as an actor you need to go out and learn some skills, but in terms of preparation for understanding the character, it's all on the page, and if it's not on the page, you're in trouble.
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Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone else's eyes, and it allows you to try to empathize with situations that you haven't actually experienced.
