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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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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But more than anything I kind of pride myself in continuing the process that we're trying to accomplish, and that's just to get better and work on my fundamentals. So that's been kind of in the theme now for a couple years and we stuck with it and that's kind of what I want to keep doing.
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You have to gain some confidence on the road to get over it. We've just had to play some very, very tough teams.
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I think the Supreme Court has not yet caught up to an era in which one keeps one's papers in a cloud, not a castle.
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I've never been one of those actors who plays chess with his career and goes, 'I'm going to wait now and see what project comes up that can move me to this or that level.' I take stuff as it comes, and it just so happens that it hasn't dried up yet, touch wood.
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What's the point of hope if the hope you have is a lie? said Frank. Better to have no hope at all than false hope.
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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.
