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Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Verbs allow you to communicate a story in a much more converged or involuntary way for a reader. The verbs allow you to come in under the radar, below people's defenses.

Chuck Palahniuk

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Story You Way More Come

I once dated someone who worked at McDonald's. She came up and asked if I wanted a Big Mac.

John Stamos

Someone McDonald She Up Big Who

I am so proud to be partnering with Waterkeepers, who are the voice for the Gulf Coast's waters.

Sophie B. Hawkins

I Am Proud Voice Who Coast Gulf

Over the course of my 20-year history as an executive in the music business and as the owner of a firm that specializes in in-culture advertising, I have come to the conclusion that the Grammy Awards have clearly lost touch with contemporary popular culture.

Steve Stoute

Business Music History Culture Lost

I took up arms for the freedom of my color. It is our own - we will defend it or perish.

Toussaint Louverture

Freedom Color Will Defend Up Own

Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough. Most folks, when they see movies or hear records, need something that they find pulls them in, draws them in, and appeals to them beyond just the notes.

Ry Cooder

Good Alone Beautiful Great Musicians

Transfer pricing is causing huge problems in Africa.

Mo Ibrahim

Problems Africa Transfer Pricing

I frowned just like Winston Churchill on his worst day, and I reminded my father of a judge who had presided over a case... I've been Judge ever since I was two weeks old.

Judge Reinhold

Father Day Judge Worst Old Over

I wish that more people were willing to turn down upfront money in exchange for doing things that are more original. Turning down a seven-figure check has a ripple effect on the budget, which has a ripple effect on the storytelling. The higher the budget gets, the fewer storytelling risks you're able to take.

Jason Blum

Money Risks People Wish Doing You

During the off-season, I go to the movies almost every day.

Derek Jeter

Day Every Day Go Movies Off-Season

Remember when those CD-ROMs from AOL came in the mail almost every day? The company was considered ubiquitous, invincible. Former AOL CEO Steve Case was no less a genius than Mark Zuckerberg.

Douglas Rushkoff

Day Genius Remember Every Day Mail

There's so much diversity of opinion out there, so ultimately you have to listen to it, put it aside, and make what you want to make.

David Twohy

Diversity Opinion You Want Listen

In terms of exploring an identity in the country music world, what I realized very quickly was that there are people who have been performing country music since they were kids. It's very much a part of who they are; very much that jazz and blues are a part of who I am, because I grew up listening to and playing that kind of music.

Chris Carmack

Music I Am Identity People World