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.

Chuck Palahniuk

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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.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Painting
  • Kitchen
  • Busy

• I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Up
  • Film
  • Born

• We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • Lost
  • Space
  • London

• 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.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Hope

• It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • Life
  • Truth
  • True

• Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Peace
  • Never
  • Quiet

• Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Sex
  • Dog
  • Leaving

• 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.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Art
  • Funny
  • Inspiration

• 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.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Success
  • You

• If the constitution goes, I go.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Constitution
  • Go
  • Goes

• 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.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Actors
  • Affection

• I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Want
  • Kind
  • End

• I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Name
  • Albums

• I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.

  

  Gary Dourdan
  • Always
  • Never
  • Boxes

• Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Produce
  • Extraordinary

• 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.

  

  La India
  • Know
  • Rock
  • Singing

• 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.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Day
  • Summer
  • Year

• Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Will
  • Racism
  • Discrimination

• I was not only typecast as a Russian, but I was typecast as Yakov Smirnoff. This is understandable, and I was very happy to get the roles, but it would be nice to be in a movie where I could be someone else.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Movie
  • Happy
  • Nice

• My granddad used to mind me at weekends, and if the game was on, and you wanted to get across the room, you had to crawl under the TV. So I've always been a Liverpool fan, and meeting Steven Gerrard was massive for me. He knew who I was before we'd even said hello!

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Mind
  • Game
  • Fan

• If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Trying
  • End
  • Yourself

• I really got to a point where I thought maybe I would want to be involved politically.

  

  Daniel J. Evans

• I don't necessarily go to church every week, but I am a Christian, and I believe in God and Jesus Christ.

  

  Andrew Forrest
  • God
  • Believe
  • Church

• '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.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • People
  • Believe
  • True