Chuck Klosterman Quotes
The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books, or write opinion pieces about what they think of Neil Young, or why they quit watching ER or whatever. And because of that, I think there's a lot of people who write about my books with the premise of, "Why this guy? Why not me?"

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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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I'm hardly macho. I present myself as very unnoticeable.
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I want to show every part of me and every color of me. And I think, growing up Albanian, I wanted to bring that to light.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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I don't think a woman riding a motorcycle thinks of herself as doing something that has sex appeal. I think she's trying to replicate for herself an experience that she sees men having.
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You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.
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If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.
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I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.
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However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.
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People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
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Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is self-defeating.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don't like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.
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When I got engaged to be married, it was assumed that I would quit science and be a housewife. It was considered shameful if a married woman had to work - it implied that her husband couldn't earn enough to keep her.
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Up to 80 percent of the fish that we catch spend at least part of their lives in estuaries.
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The 'Carousel' overture has always been one of my all-time favorite pieces of music.
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The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books, or write opinion pieces about what they think of Neil Young, or why they quit watching ER or whatever. And because of that, I think there's a lot of people who write about my books with the premise of, "Why this guy? Why not me?"