Chuck Klosterman Quotes
Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary. The postmodern mother of invention is desire; we don’t really “need” anything new, so we only create what we want.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
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I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.
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The only way reliably to gauge the heat of any particular chilli is to cut it in half, so exposing the core and membranes, and to dab the cut surface on your tongue.
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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In a play, you only get one chance, and you have to get it perfect. In a film, you can change and fix it whatever way you want, so really, there's a pretty big difference.
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Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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I definitely prefer working in comedy over drama, but at the same time, when it comes to comedy, I tend to prefer comedies that have a great sense of truth to them and that come from an honest place.
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There is no question that knowing someone in the business will get you in the door. But it is your skill that will keep you in the room.
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I knew what kind of actor I was going to be, and I looked for inspiration to people like Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent. I looked at them and thought, 'They play human beings as they really are.'
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I have to start with elements of myself, which is what you always do as an actor.
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I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal.
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It cannot be denied that God in choosing and destining Mary to be the Mother of his Son, granted her the highest honor.
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I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.
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Conservation destroys the present. If we are only busy preserving the past, we are not living in the present and unable to look forward. I am against conservation. We should let young people move forward, whether we agree with them or not. We should let new things happen.
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Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary. The postmodern mother of invention is desire; we don’t really “need” anything new, so we only create what we want.
