Chuck Klosterman Quotes
If invited, you would go to this person's wedding and give them a spice rack, but you would secretly hope that their marriage ends in a bitter, public divorce.
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Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
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A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
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Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
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We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
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A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.
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Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.
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The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
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Although I believe the Web has greatly increased the distribution of quality news, I do worry about those who don't have Internet access.
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We worked out a lot of bugs and figured out who was working and who wasn't and how this beast functions. It was a lot bigger than we actually thought, and now we have a well-run ship where it feels I can actually have time to imagine and not just stress out about everything.
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Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.
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It is natural for me not to explain my private life or to answer any questions about my private life.
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If invited, you would go to this person's wedding and give them a spice rack, but you would secretly hope that their marriage ends in a bitter, public divorce.
