Chuck Klosterman Quotes
Because I'm 44, I feel kind of lucky that I lived through this period where I started my career where there was no Internet at all, and now when I finish it, there will be nothing but the Internet.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.
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I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl.
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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I feel like the luckiest person on the planet. 'Tron' was such a departure for me.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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I'm not a good loser. I get sick physically... I take it to heart. I hate it.
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
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Afghanistan is a land-locked country.
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The Olympics was a goal, and definitely, swimming in college was a goal.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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There's a double meaning in the film The Conquest. First, the conquest of power at the UMP party and how Sarkozy had to fight his colleagues inside the party so that it was him running for President. He wins the political conquest, but he loses the feminine conquest in that his wife leaves him. It's hard for a President to be single - that's never happened.
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I do still read comics since I started writing for DC, but nowhere near as much as I used to, and I'm finding now that it's becoming harder to read comics as a consumer, so I think I'll have to make the call there and stop reading them.
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When I saw 'Pretty In Pink' at the cinema at the age of 11, I just thought it was a period piece from maybe 100 years previously. I had no idea that was what everybody was supposed to be wearing.
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If I could really move my career much more into predominantly directing, I would jump at that.
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One reason most people never stop thinking is that mental frenzy keeps us from having to see the upsetting aspects of our lives. If I'm constantly brooding about my children or career, I won't notice that I'm lonely. If I grapple continuously with logistical problems, I can avoid contemplating little issues like, say, my own mortality.
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Because I'm 44, I feel kind of lucky that I lived through this period where I started my career where there was no Internet at all, and now when I finish it, there will be nothing but the Internet.
