Chuck Palahniuk Quotes
Some stories, Mr.Whitter would say, you tell them and you use them up. Other stories, they use you up. p288
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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I'm not Cinderella.
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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I like sitting close to windows.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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I've matured since joining United, on and off the field.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
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I love the look of full brows that aren't perfectly done - eyebrows on fleek: that's the goal.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
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I'm a folk singer-songwriter. I am pretty poppy though.
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They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
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I am grateful that as a reporter and as an anchor, people have allowed me to share their stories.
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I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.
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Iraq assumes responsibility for its own future... They have got to step up.
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I've been lucky enough to work with some of the best TV directors there are, and I've learned from how they had to handle when things don't go quite according to plan.
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Now that I'm a civilian again, I can once more comment on economic and financial issues without my words being put under the microscope by Fed watchers.
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When I write, I solemnly visit myself.
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The West is dying. Its nations have ceased to reproduce, and their populations have stopped growing and begun to shrink. Not since the Black Death carried off a third of Europe in the fourteenth century has there been a graver threat to the survival of Western civilization.
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Some stories, Mr.Whitter would say, you tell them and you use them up. Other stories, they use you up. p288
