Chuck Klosterman Quotes
It has always been my belief that people are remembered for the sum of their accomplishments but defined by their singular failure.
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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I find the business world hard.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
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When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
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Every year the World Series should go seven games for the dramatics of it.
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Of course. They're disgusting. What sort of people are they? I never knew what they were doing. I've been told recently that what they do is terrible. Disgusting.
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I think 'The Sunset Tree' is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important.
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I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.
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I am fortunate in having this bone structure because I have a tremendously prominent temple. I like to think that's it's because I'm so intelligent. People say: 'You haven't got a line on your forehead.' I do. It's just the bones are holding them all out, and the cheekbones are holding my face up.
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It has always been my belief that people are remembered for the sum of their accomplishments but defined by their singular failure.
