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Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?

Chuck Palahniuk

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 21, 1962

Topics

Alone End Feel Laugh You Dope

And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that I'm probably regarded as quite prickly to work with.

Work Good Trust People Say Possible

I love the theater, but if I had to choose, I would choose a film at this time in my life. Something meaty, to sink my teeth into.

Life Love Time My Life Choose Teeth

The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.

Knowledge Key Social Mobility

I figured if I write a modern thriller but spliced in the DNA of a classic western - the drifter who comes into town with secrets - I could do something interesting with both genres. Westerns are also an incarnation of the classic knight errant tale, the lone warrior with a moral code, and I love those types of stories.

Love Interesting Warrior Secrets DNA

The fact is, I've always felt more British than Irish. Maybe it was the way I was brought up, I don't know, but I have always felt more of a connection with the U.K. than with Ireland.

Connection Know Way More Irish Up

The message is risk, really risk. Be yourself. Create.

Yourself Be Yourself Create Risk

I thought maybe, just by never preaching, never doing any of that stuff because it doesn't work. By just maybe the power of example and some laughs, maybe somebody might go take a walk.

Work Power Walk Thought Doing Go

I've never thought about it in training, 'If I do this, then maybe I can be on the SPOTY shortlist.'

Lizzie Armitstead

Training Thought I Can Never Maybe

In 1987, I had no idea who Steven Isserlis was. We met at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina. It was originally just an Italian summer festival, but for the past 14 years, there's also been a spring festival in America.

Past Spring America Summer Years

We started watching 'Doctor Who' as a family because our first daughter was a cranky baby, and she would get up during the night - and it was her dad's job to stay up because I worked at night.

Family Daughter Job Baby Doctor She

In a globalized world, one application can spread like wildfire and there's only one winning company, which means you have to invest more than you've ever had.

Winning World You More Company Only

The Chinese, the African, and the European - they are all there. So the division of the Caribbean experience into being emphatically only African is absurd.

Experience Division Caribbean Absurd

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