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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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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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.
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I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal.
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I lost a great uncle in World War II who was with the Royal Canadian Air Force.
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The Mercedes-Benz Fashion Force car is a statement about New York being one of the greatest fashion capitals of the world and the confident approach to individualistic style that people strive to explore throughout this amazing city.
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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.
