Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

In books, you can just wallow in dialogue, and you can just wallow in written words. In screenplays, every line has to serve the purpose of the line that's implied before it and the line that's implied after it. Maybe five lines have to do the work of fifty lines.

Chuck Palahniuk

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I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

Jerry Seinfeld

I AmMeBusyDoingYouKnow

At the age of 70-something, Helen Gurley Brown was still a woman who knew how to get men to look at her.

John Searles

AgeMenWomanLookHerGet

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

Robert Baden-Powell

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I dressed like Leslie Caron as a teenager: soft school pleats, Peter Pan collars.

Mary Quant

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In the bar and restaurant industry, you're always one idea away from your next quarter-million.

Jon Taffer

RestaurantYouAlwaysBarIndustry

I feel like I'm waving the flag for musicianship, trying to bring back bands that can play.

Jonathan Davis

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Really, voice-over is great. If it paid as much as on camera work, it's all I'd ever do.

Diedrich Bader

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If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone.

Arthur C. Brooks

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Denzel Washington is a big Hollywood movie star now. But he started out as an actor in the Negro Ensemble company.

Pearl Cleage

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I ended up in college by accident. Everything in my life, I ended up in by accident. I was down south in this high school doing whatever. It could just not contain me. I quit school and took off and traveled around. Nobody knew where I was I just couldn't handle it anymore. It was a big scandal, I was gone. I left.

Pauley Perrette

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A favorite film of mine is 'Office Space' and I love 'The Hangover.' That is a really good comedy from character in that film, and that is true of 'Office Space' too.

Seth Gordon

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History is exciting because it's true.

Marissa Moss

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