Chuck Klosterman Quotes
Maybe I don't need a relationship after all, she thought. Maybe thinking about these conversations was just as good as having them. She could sit in her Honda in the dark and experience whatever kind of life she wanted. Sometimes you think, Hey, maybe there's something else out there. But there really isn't. This is what being alive feels like, you know? The place doesn't matter. You just live.
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A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.
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Modesty is good. But not when it comes at the cost of honesty.
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Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
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For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
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I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.
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That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.
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'American Horror Story' is dark, so you shouldn't be expecting too much happiness.
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There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some people and cultures will be right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to what they deem important in life.
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The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no personal life. It's very difficult.
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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Not all of us are chameleons that can do every different thing. I hope I'm going to be typecast. I will play the girl next door for the rest of my life if I have to. I always kind of feel like I have that in my pocket when I go in a room.
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
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The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.
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New experiences give you new perspectives on life.
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I hired Tina Fey for 'SNL,' which was certainly a good match. She took off right away there.
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Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
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Ancient, woman-centered words and beliefs never, like, fall off the planet. Having long done taken on a life of their own, they - like womankind - evolve, and survive. Chameleon style.
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I did a play, back in the day, called 'Sucker Punch,' and it meant so much for me. I was 21. And I went, 'I just want to do work like that.' Stuff I believe in. And when I have compromised, I've never really felt good about it.
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I don't see why it's such a stretch for distributors, buyers, and studios to put cartoon characters into adult situations on film.
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You learn from your mistakes, or you go backward. I'm the kind of person who wants to move forward.
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We like annoying people. It's a Manchester thing. It's a trait. We just like pissing people off.
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Maybe I don't need a relationship after all, she thought. Maybe thinking about these conversations was just as good as having them. She could sit in her Honda in the dark and experience whatever kind of life she wanted. Sometimes you think, Hey, maybe there's something else out there. But there really isn't. This is what being alive feels like, you know? The place doesn't matter. You just live.
