Quotes
Authors
Dan Chiasson
"I do care about the consequences of being negative toward people who are powerful. But I'm more afraid of not being taken seriously as a critic - by editors, by readers." --
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Dan Chiasson
#Powerful Quotes
#Taken Quotes
#People Quotes
“We come from a generation of people who need their TV or stereo playing all the time. These people so scared of silence. These soundaholics, these quietophobics.”
“It seems obvious that there comes period in your life when you have to learn to say no to things you don't want to do. But the biggest trickiest lesson in holding on the stalwart committment to your creativity is learning how to say no to the things you do want to do.”
“Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, but I don't know. I don't want to use. I don't want to go back to that place because nothing good came of it. It was super dark; it's not nice.”
“Don't limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded.”
“[Adolf] Hitler had a very strong adolescent side to him, emotionally he was like a boy in certain things, like film stars and gossip.”
“Washington is still very much a male-oriented culture. Being from Los Angeles, I think it is less so there - there is less attachment to tradition, perhaps, there is more flexibility, more acceptance of change generally. That is partly because of Hollywood.”
“There's a very fine line between pleasure and pain. They are two sides of the same coin, one not existing without the other.”
“Death is the chillness that precedes the dawn; We shudder for a moment, then awake In the broad sunshine of the other life.”