Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.

Chuck Palahniuk

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I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova. It's very warm-sounding to me - lush and simple. I like that.

Joey Santiago

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Collaboration is a multilane highway, going in all directions. If there isn't reciprocity, it fails, and it's unsatisfying.

Jeffrey Wright

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I'm not the type of person who goes through all this effort for a movie, and then doesn't care if anybody sees it. I want them to see it, and I want them to see it on the big screen.

Andy Garcia

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We have made great strides, but somehow we've got to create a climate so that everybody can do well, not just some.

Alveda King

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The global response to global terrorism must not endanger fundamental human rights and freedoms.

Stjepan Mesic

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My mom, Nellie, got me a rosary at church. I don't use it to pray before a competition. I'll just pray normally to myself, but I have it there in case.

Simone Biles

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I can't stand to see myself on TV.

Rod Lurie

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I ended up winning a silver medal at the Summer X Games Adaptive Supercross seven months after my injury - on a leg that I built.

Mike Schultz

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A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.

Michelangelo Antonioni

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The piano has disappeared from working-class family life, which is a shame. It's associated with the middle classes now. Everyone in my family sang and played piano, but my parents were delighted and amazed when I became the first professional performer in the family - apart from a clog-dancer way back.

Jools Holland

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I came from a supportive home with a mommy and a daddy, and they had everything I wanted.

Desiigner

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The orthodox believers in God are divided into two camps, one of which maintains that the existence of God is as demonstrable as any mathematical proposition, while the other asserts that his existence is not demonstrable to the intellect.

Annie Besant

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