Chuck Klosterman Quotes
In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever in and of itself.Chuck Klosterman
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I think we've become a TV culture, where we forget the live performer in front of us can see us. I think there is a self-centeredness that happens. There's nothing more important than what you are doing in that moment. So, unless it's an emergency, put your phone away.
Laura Benanti -
I pledge to you today that for as long as I am your governor, I will not seek or accept any outside compensation from any source.
Kate Brown -
I mostly play my dynasty or against someone in the hotel. I don't really like online games. I can't stand people yelling in my ear over a headset. I'd rather just play someone like Dwight Howard out in Orlando or people back home. For games like that, it's cool, but just signing on and playing random people, I hate it.
J. R. Smith -
My goal in creating Geek & Sundry was to create a community based around web video, and we've accomplished that, especially on our budget.
Felicia Day -
I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'
Ursula K. Le Guin -
Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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If you are interested in writing, get out and live your life! Do a lot. See a lot. Keep your eyes and ears open. Pay attention to the different ways people speak. Read lots of different kinds of books. And then try writing in different voices and styles - don't be afraid to experiment.
Wendelin Van Draanen -
It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.
Ralph Steadman -
I belong on the stage. I love how the day's events, whatever you read in the newspapers or watch on the TV, are reflected in the performance and how it's received.
Mandy Patinkin -
Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.
Nancy Banks Smith -
Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
R. D. Laing
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We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not us to degrade other countries…I want the freedom of my country so that other countries may learn something from my free country so that the resources of my country might be utilized for the benefit of mankind.
Lal Bahadur Shastri -
The obsessive rules of etiquette struck Emily as mean-spirited, like the old trick of tying someone’s shoelaces under the table. It was only fun if you liked watching people fall down.
M. K. Hobson -
Through these adversities, Israel has endured with continued strength, conviction, and faith.
Jerry Costello -
I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.
Jerry B. Jenkins -
The USA marketing team are geniuses at what they do. They do the right kind of thing for every medium. They're very active on social media; they're releasing videos every day up to the premiere.
Lennon Parham -
I figure if I have one false start every ten or 12 years that I've been running, I probably won't false start again during my career.
Allen Johnson
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If limitation spawns creativity, is the limitless resource of the Internet a good thing?
Alec Soth -
I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.
Mackenzie Crook -
A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it.
Carter Burwell -
I'm not Israeli and because I'm not a citizen, it doesn't matter how often I go there - I'm still not Israeli. There's this way I feel so close to so many people there, but I always feel like I'm staring through the glass. And in a way, having this really thin piece of glass between me and this place is incredibly useful for me as a writer, because I'm just so hyper-aware of it. I could take a walk in San Francisco and probably notice a third of the things that I would notice in Israel, because I'm just attuned to everything when I'm there.
Molly Antopol -
In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever in and of itself.
Chuck Klosterman