Daniel Handler Quotes
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Planning a garden, park, building, or city shouldn't be done in an office.
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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
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I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
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No one tells salesmen what they can and can't do.
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People have said to me, 'It must be nice to prove so many people wrong,' but I've never really cared about proving anything to anybody else.
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I'm not a party person.
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I get to see life through rose-colored glasses a lot of the time.
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The boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I'll probably always be interested in this planet - it's my favorite.
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I went on tour with Beyonce before. I wouldn't mind doing something with her.
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I've been going to the same barber the last few years, and we have great chats whenever I'm in the chair. He'll ask: 'How you doing? How's the training going?' Just ordinary, obvious things, but then, like you do with your barber, you start talking about personal stuff.
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I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.
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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.
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In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to bring up.
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I left New York in 2009 when I fell in love with someone who had a farmhouse in New Hampshire... Portland, Maine, felt like the inevitable place for us.
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In preparation for it, we need to have folks who are trained, we need facilities, equipment and supplies, that are going to be built into our society, and we are going to spend a lot of money on it.
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When death comes, it is not enough to have been charitable; and it is not right to touch the body or lay it out for a couple of hours; for the soul should be given time to fight for itself, and to go up to judgment.
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The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
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I just write characters, and somehow they happen to be a boy and a girl. When the story is put together, and their characters interwoven, they do end up together somehow.
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It's all about the special effects.
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I hear a lot of, 'I'm a writer because of you.' It's not a bad feeling, but it sneaks up on you. You don't ask for it.
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When I first played Othello, a reviewer absolutely slaughtered me.
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As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.
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Beatrice.
