Daniel Handler Quotes
It was the sort of day when people walk in the park and solve problems. 'We'll simply call the taxi company, David, and request a large one, like one of those vans.' Is the sort of thing you would overhear if you were overhearing in the park.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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I've never met anyone that is their image.
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Being famous has changed a lot, because now there's so many outlets, between magazines, TV shows, and the Internet, for people to stalk and follow you. We created the monster.
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That show, 'The Amazing Race' - is that about white people?
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You know, I really miss sex scandals. They're generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they're going on, the people who actually keep the government running are let alone to go about their business. Good old sex scandals.
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I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do people do it, for years and years?
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I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.
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The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.
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The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the need for originality is greater. Then I become very conscious about the writing.
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I wish people would be a bit more aware of how their actions affect everyone around them.
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There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness.
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The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.
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My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.
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Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
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Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.
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A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.
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I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.
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I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that.
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My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.
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My only career strategy is to just not do anything that I have to be completely ashamed of afterwards! Whether it's TV or movies, I feel lucky to be working.
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I'm Michael Jackson-obsessed. All I watch is 'Moonwalker' - it's my favorite movie of all time.
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Only one thing matters: learning to be the loser.
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I don't think about second or third place.
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It was the sort of day when people walk in the park and solve problems. 'We'll simply call the taxi company, David, and request a large one, like one of those vans.' Is the sort of thing you would overhear if you were overhearing in the park.
