Chuck Klosterman Quotes
People are more interested in reading bombastic ideas, whether they're positive or negative. Part of me has sort of lost interest in doing criticism because of that. I've always realized that criticism is basically autobiography. Obviously in my criticism, it's very clear that it's autobiography, but I think it's that way for everybody.
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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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Dance should mean something to you.
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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
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When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid; you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story. You're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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I don't have many friends.
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The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.
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If I have any complaints about my youth... one is that many well-meaning adults lied to me. Not spiteful lies with malicious intent but lies designed to prevent emotional and psychological pain - lies told by the people who cared about me most: my parents, teachers, relatives.
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We're getting a lot more younger people entering the business and a significant number of more women and minorities,
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People are more interested in reading bombastic ideas, whether they're positive or negative. Part of me has sort of lost interest in doing criticism because of that. I've always realized that criticism is basically autobiography. Obviously in my criticism, it's very clear that it's autobiography, but I think it's that way for everybody.
