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Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up.

Chuck Palahniuk

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Start Talking You Up Get

I feel like modern country is deliberately dumbing down the human race. They're deliberately making people take glory in being uneducated and racist, and it's just sad. I think it's absolute mind control.

Sad People Mind Control Think Feel

Where a man's strength and courage is tested most is in the way that he treats women - the way that he loves.

Strength Women Courage Man Way Most

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Know Ashamed Parliament

I won't criticise anyone else's statements, and the public will make up their own minds. And if the public think that any side or any individual has strayed too far away from what's expected of public representatives, then they'll make that judgement.

Think Far Away Will Minds Judgement

I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn't really solve anything. It just creates a perpetual-motion machine.

Steven Spielberg

Time Same Always Anything Israel

It was actually a relief for me to play an actor who was scared, who didn't know where everything was, who didn't know what buttons to push, and for me to be able to play all that.

Sigourney Weaver

Me Push Play Know Actor Everything

You have a lot of ups and downs in coaching, especially, but I can't remember any bad times at this point. I mean, they're all good. A lot of tears when you lose, a lot of down times, but I can't remember any of them. They're all positive now. Even the bad times were good.

Positive Good Tears Ups And Downs

My first novel was turned down by about twenty publishers over a period of two and a half years. Because my name is Irish and would not be familiar to English editors, one of them said: 'If she writes anything else, do let us know.' Slowly, very slowly, the books began to sell and be noticed.

Name Down Know Said Irish She

Who wouldn't fancy Brian Epstein? He was tall and handsome and had money and class.

Money Handsome Class Tall Fancy Who

All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.

Passion Animals Defend Academic Far

My career is a burden, but I can't just fade out like a pathetic sore loser. More often than not, I'm just making a fool of myself for the hundredth time, and that wasn't part of the plan, initially. I'd be happier not having any kind of public presence whatsoever and just hiding behind the sleeves of the CD.

Time Myself Fool Loser Plan Career

Maurice Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the rhythm, the psychology, the design.

Words Design Picture Rhythm Daddy

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