Chuck Palahniuk Quotes
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I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.
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I love cooking and baking.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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My parents gave me the easy option that if you're going to go your way, that's the highway. You can expect no funds and no support, which I think was legitimate; that was a fair option.
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I would love the opportunity to create my own program. I feel like a TV show with a format of monologue with lots of sketches thrown in could be really fun. But you know, that may never happen. Minimally, I just want to keep making stand-up.
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The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continued to train in film classes and had been auditioning for T.V. and movie roles since I was in my late teens. My career has been slow and steady, and I kind of like it that way.
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Quiet is the new loud.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into.
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It's time to recognize what compromise means: no side wins or loses all.
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Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.
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I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in it, so I always got my exams but never had the scholar's love of learning for its own sake.
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I find that I don't lie about the big things in life. The things that matter. And about me. While I'm talking about myself, I rarely lie: I know who I am, my level of talent, that I'm not the most versatile filmmaker, the person I am. I don't lie about myself because I don't lie to myself.
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Many of the things that I have written on have focused, at least a big part of the story, on adolescents. I think that in that period of life, so much happens, and it's the period of life where you're forming into an adult. In certain ways, you're already an adult and in certain ways you're still a kid.
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The meaning of service is to do the work assigned ungrudgingly and without thought of personal reward material or moral.
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All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isn’t are not easy to specify
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A trajectory of misery – at this point – seems intentional. We have all the information we need to see clearly. We are no longer unaware toddlers on the landscape of consciousness. It is no longer cute to crap ourselves.
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My fans have great senses of humor and eat too much chocolate.
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No detail is too minor to note.
