Chuck Palahniuk Quotes
'What matters,' Sister Vigilante says, 'is, people need a monster they can believe in.' A true horrible enemy. A demon to define themselves against. Otherwise, it's just us versus us.
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Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.
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I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
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I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
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When you had thugs and bullies and killers imposing their will on their own people or other people - if you don't respond to it, it just keeps coming because they're encouraged by their own success.
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If the constitution goes, I go.
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A hit film is what we work for as actors, as that goes to show that we have managed to entertain our audiences who shower us with their love and affection throughout the years.
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I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anything, but I didn't know what direction to go in.
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In the United States, oil demand is projected to grow by 340,000 barrels per day this year and gasoline demand is projected to grow nearly two percent, averaging 9.3 million barrels per day for the summer.
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You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise.
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It's all about the mood I'm in and the scene I'm writing. 'Cause work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life. So I don't listen to any music that's not an influence on what I'm working on that day. Music is a big influence in my work and sometimes drives the energy of where I want to go.
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In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.
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... I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies.
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I'm one of those people who think I can learn something from everybody.
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'What matters,' Sister Vigilante says, 'is, people need a monster they can believe in.' A true horrible enemy. A demon to define themselves against. Otherwise, it's just us versus us.
