Chuck Klosterman Quotes

Even though I wanted to experience all these things I was interested in, I couldn't get them. So I had to think critically and culturally about what was available.

Chuck Klosterman

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• I really want women to know their power, to value their experience. To understand that nothing has been more wholesome in the political process than the increased involvement of women.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Women
  • Experience
  • Power

• We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Life
  • Great
  • Long

• I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • World
  • Good
  • Work

• I think polo players are at their best in their 30s. You've got the talent and the experience. You play with your head - you learn to lose and how to win.

  

  Facundo Pieres
  • Experience
  • Best
  • Win

• Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person - not to get too heavy about it - but I once heard somebody say that was a form of real prayer.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Prayer

• Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Experience
  • Soul
  • Purpose

• This experience has also humbled me by giving me a true understanding of what millions of others face each day in their own fight against cancer.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Experience
  • True
  • Giving

• I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Father

• The years teach much which the days never know.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Experience
  • Know
  • Years

• In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Experience
  • Change
  • Enemy

• What people don't realize is that Tinder built a brand on more than the experience of the swipe.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • People
  • Experience
  • Brand

• Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.

  

  Walter Wriston
  • Experience
  • Bad
  • Judgment

• No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Life
  • Business
  • Experience

• 'Cold Case' was fun. It was a fun experience. That was right when I was cutting my teeth as a TV actor. It was a great learning experience to work on really fast-paced television shows that are very high quality. It was a place where I learned that I had to keep up and I could keep up.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• She was obsessed with French and Swedish cinema. I also remember our mother showing us 'Gone With the Wind' very early on. She absolutely loved Vivien Leigh, so it must have been a formative experience for me, thinking, 'Oh, maybe one day I'll be like Vivien Leigh.'

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Experience

• Recreating the experience of, say, bereavement in my own head is pretty rough. I was used to switching off from emotions every day of my working life as a journalist, but in fiction, you have to feel it 100%, or else it's a flat experience for the reader.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Pretty

• People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a big deal about uniformity? It took me a long time to grasp that particular concept, simply because I was coming from the James Brown thing. Again, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Experience
  • Mistakes
  • Name

• 'Free Agents' was an awesome experience. I never play the glam girl in anything, so that was a new experience. I would walk into one of my trailers and it would be like Spanx, a spray-tan gun, and chicken cutlets. I would have hair extensions. It was hilarious. Every day felt like I was turning into an awesome drag queen.

  

  Kathryn Hahn
  • Experience
  • Free
  • Girl

• What I took away from my 'Flashforward' experience is that when you're doing a serialized mythology show, you put your foot on the gas, and you do not take it off.

  

  Marc Guggenheim
  • Experience

• Angels cry because they want to experience what you and I feel: the moment. They live in eternity. They dont know what it is like to read a newspaper and get ink on your fingers. They dont know what it is like to take your shoes off and wiggle your toes under the dinner table.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Experience
  • Eternity
  • Angels

• My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons.

  

  Questlove
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Watching

• As a writer, you're making a pact with the reader; you're saying, 'Look, I know and you know that if this book was really a murder investigation, it would be a thousand pages long and would be very dull, and you would be very unhappy with the ending.'

  

  Mark Billingham
  • Long
  • Book

• Even though I wanted to experience all these things I was interested in, I couldn't get them. So I had to think critically and culturally about what was available.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Experience