Chuck Palahniuk Quotes
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.
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Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
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Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.
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For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.
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It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.
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In Swat, there are two jobs a woman's going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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I think London's sexy because it's so full of eccentrics.
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas - only that of humanity, not only in Saudi Arabia, but all over the world.
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As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person.
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When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.
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I've never been comfortable with the idea of using family and friends in stories. Which is why it takes me longer than something else. Because you make them up out of nothing. Doing that is harder.
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Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.
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Jesus find the same mistake in both the Saducees and the Pharisees, both those who collaborate with the Romans and those who oppose them. In the eyes of Jesus they are both wrong. He will not play any part in the political drama.
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We love drama. We love conflict. We need a devil or we'll create one.
