Daniel Handler Quotes
The right boys I always toss and the wrong ones I keep on top of me like paperweights.
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I don't take on big things. What I do, pretty much, is make the big things small and the small things big.
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I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker.
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I believe in God. God created the world.
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Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of Scotland in the late Sixties.
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Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
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So I am, in fact, very optimistic about the future of my federal party.
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Lots of girls marry at 16 in Tennessee.
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It's much funnier when the comedy can happen with me just trying my best to genuinely do a good thing.
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If I could never work again and I could just listen to music and walk, I'd be very, very happy.
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When you've finished reading every last thing by a famous writer, literary convention holds that you move on to his or her letters, the DVD extras peddled by publishers.
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It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language.
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One way in which 'Friends' did resemble 'Seinfeld' is that it really found its audience over the summer of 1995 in reruns. That's when the main title song, 'I'll Be There for You', by the Rembrandts, exploded, too.
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I'm retired from the daredevil business.
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I raised my sister. I was six when she was born. My mother had to make a living for herself and it was very hard, so I was looking after my sister, cooking and cleaning, and she had four jobs.
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The living werewolves have genuine needs and desires, which, though they may oppose ours, are valid. Even if they want to eat humans, you can't really call them evil, any more than mice can call cats evil, or chickens can call humans evil. It's all just a matter of where you're standing.
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A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
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The reality is that politicians, in terms of the amount of power they wield and the amount that they work, don't actually make that much money.
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We started out when I was 6 years old. We played ukuleles and sang Everly Brothers songs.
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They who depend upon manifest observations will philosophize better than those who persist in opinions repugnant to the senses.
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The more I sought truth uncorrupted by years of religious history, the more I kept finding answers I didn’t want to find. Emotionally, it would have been easiest for me to just hold on to what I grew up believing, but mentally that wasn’t an option anymore.
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What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.
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At that time, about July 5, we had no Iraqi corrections officers working for us. It was a responsibility of the CPA, with contractors, to set up a training program.
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I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways.
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The right boys I always toss and the wrong ones I keep on top of me like paperweights.
