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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PM: What annoys you most about yourself? M: Practically everything. I miss not being able to stand up straight. I tend to slide into rooms and sit on the chair behind the door.
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I know there are some good American police. But I grew up in a country where we were afraid of the police.
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But when I felt like I had something to prove? Then I got up early every morning and worked all day long. I didn't know if I had any more talent than anyone else directing, but I knew I could work hard at it, and so I did.
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There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.
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'Chocolat' was a sort of statement of my own childhood, recognizing I experienced something from the end of the colonial era and the beginning of independence as I was a child that really made me aware of things I never forgot - a sort of childhood that made me different when I was a student in France.
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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
