Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power.

Chuck Palahniuk

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LoveMusicPowerWordsWantSpecial

Going out on a stage publicly and not knowing how people are going to react to you - once I experienced that, it made me feel much more comfortable about going into a scene.

Joaquin Phoenix

PeopleMeFeelNot KnowingYouMore

When I was writing stories about Chinese American characters in my fiction classes, I'd get comments like, 'You should consider writing more universal stories.' But anything can happen to a Chinese American girl - just as much of the canon of English literature involves white men or women.

Jenny Zhang

WomenGirlMenWritingAmericanYou

The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world's most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement.

John McCarthy

GreatPeacePeopleWorldMovement

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

John Wooden

CharacterReputationThinkYouMore

Some distant day, anthropologists will consider as a landmark in humankind's evolution - comparable to the capacity for destroying ourselves by nuclear obliteration - the adolescent gene's newly emergent power to dictate nightly TV viewing.

Steve Erickson

PowerDayEvolutionWillAdolescent

You should feel beautiful and you should feel safe. What you surround yourself with should bring you peace of mind and peace of spirit.

Stacy London

BeautifulPeaceYourselfMindYou

I was fed up with not being able to play a movie the way I wanted to play it.

Jon Johansen

PlayWayUpBeingAbleFed Up

I write as a matter of need - seven books and God knows how many short stories before anyone published me.

Jonathan Evison

GodMeShortMatterWriteNeed

I have never had trouble with any actor being able to visualise things. They are amazing. As long as you have your monster head on a long stick, so you can hold it up there and you can wave it around and let them see it and explain it to them, they are just great.

Dennis Muren

GreatAmazingWaveLongYouTrouble

A 'serious' scientist in 1992 or 1993 had to admit the possibility that planets were really rare, that most stars might not have planets. We've gone from there to here - where most stars have planets.

Debra Fischer

StarsAdmitSeriousRareGoneHere

I try not to apologize, especially publicly. That's a slippery slope, because I'm a comedian. If you take anything I'm saying too seriously, then you shouldn't be paying attention in the first place. If you find me offensive, don't follow me.

Chelsea Handler

MeSayingAttentionYouFindPlace

The Army will take its lessons learned. They're excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

Colin Powell

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