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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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
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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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I like to do at least 15 minutes of cardio every day if I can fit it in.
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There are two 'Snow White' movies coming out for the same reason that you remember back in the day there was 'Armageddon' and then 'Deep Impact.' You know, 'Andromeda Strain' and then 'Outbreak.' Like, all of those things. It's common because basically studios have no imagination in making the decisions.
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When I approach any script, I always try to find what I would relate to most in it.
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It is nothing but a kind of a microcosmos of communism - all that psychiatry', rumbled Pnin ... 'Why not leave their private sorrow to people? Is sorrow not, one asks, the only thing in the world people really possess?
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Boxing is like chess. You encourage your opponent to make mistakes so you can capitalise on it. People think you get in the ring and see the red mist, but it's not about aggression. Avoiding getting knocked out is tactical.
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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.
