Chuck Klosterman Quotes
If I knew I was going to die at a specific moment in the future, it would be nice to be able to control what song I was listening to; this is why I always bring my iPod on airplanes.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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Most of my stuff, I never really watch.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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If I give five flops, I won't get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at the top. No one is running a charity here. People are putting huge amounts of money to make movies, and they want the films to be successful. They have invested money in you, so it is your duty to make sure the film does well.
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I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.
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More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
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I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying glass: to find the clues. They're discovery devices, not performance devices - you're watching things the way a cat does. You're not judging. You're there to witness something.
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It was a huge shock. I've never had hair that short in my life! I think the rest of the cast and crew were mourning my haircut more than I was! But after a while, I felt liberated, I learned to embrace it.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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Cerrone, he's a very good Muay Thai guy, very long.
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My family were very poor. I am one of nine siblings: two girls and seven boys. Only my brother and I play in Europe, and then three more work in Europe, and another plays in Tunisia. This family is a footballing family, but our lives have not always been good.
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I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.
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Christine Bass was my high school music teacher. She took a program on its last legs and within a few years turned into one of the best programs in the country. Our high school dominated national choir competitions all through her 20-plus year tenure.
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I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.
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African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
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If it wasn't for the fans I would probably be bartending somewhere.
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We built a bit of an audience at our university in Cambridge, playing Beethoven and Mozart quartets.
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I find myself being attracted to dudes all the time. I'm like, 'Wow, that's a beautiful man.' There's no shame in it; that's how I feel.
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We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.
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Die! Die! Die in this love! If you die in this love,Your soul will be renewed. Die! Die! Don’t fear the death of that which is known If you die to the temporal, You will become timeless.
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If I knew I was going to die at a specific moment in the future, it would be nice to be able to control what song I was listening to; this is why I always bring my iPod on airplanes.
