Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.

Chuck Palahniuk

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I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character with no gender or body who wakes up every day in the body of a different person. It's a really impressive execution of a really great premise.

John Green

CharacterGreatDayI AmBodyYoung

The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.

John Lewis

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It's my goal to help actors achieve their best work, and I think I speak the same language as actors, so I understand how they do it, and I just love being able to create the playground in which they build their beautiful sandcastle.

Michael Arden

WorkLoveBeautifulBestThinkHelp

Soros is the best loss taker I've ever seen. He doesn't care whether he wins or loses on a trade. If a trade doesn't work, he's confident enough about his ability to win on other trades that he can easily walk away from the position.

Stanley Druckenmiller

WorkBestWalkWinCareConfident

I was at an all-girls' school, so there were a lot of us who were really awkward. I was this tall when I was 11, so I was really awkward and self-conscious. No one would really have wanted to be mean to me. I was too unimportant.

Sigourney Weaver

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I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award: Start early!

Shirley Temple

AchievementStartAdviceAwardYou

I've got four kids, so I plan ahead. I have to book flights far in advance, look at accommodation, where it is, what you can and can't do. Same in running.

Mo Farah

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You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.

Denis Waitley

AssumptionsYouReadyConviction

You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.

Colin Powell

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Being an actor, in and of itself, is just hard. You have to just do it for its own sake.

Constance Wu

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I have never been attracted by younger men.

Brigitte Macron

MenNeverBeenYoungerAttracted

Not every innovation in transportation is going to come from government or even a large enterprise. There are smart people out there with tools and skills to come up with great ideas.

Anthony Foxx

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