Daniel Handler Quotes
I write every day weekdays for about 5 hours, mostly longhand on legal pads. It has gotten neither harder nor easier, sadly or happily.
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I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade.
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For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.
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When you have a half slice of chocolate pie, it's as if you owe yourself the other half - what's known in medical circles as a 'caloric deficit.'
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
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If the government would like to hire my services to maximize value for their stake, they should approach me. No problem.
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When you're a standup comic, you get up and you try stuff, and you're always kind of seeing how far you can push things.
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I am still hungry; I still hate defeats. There is no substitute for victories.
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Obviously, I'm not a singer. I don't consider myself a singer.
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There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.
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Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
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I dream of not having access to technology. I think it's a very wonderful time that we have found ourselves in, in terms of access to information, but alone time is better for some personalities than others. And I would very gladly give it up. I think I'd do very well.
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Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought, expression and belief that democracy brings.
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Something like 'Sex And The City' was insulting - women all clawing on to their youth when there's such ripe territory in honestly exploring women's lives as they get older.
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I became a Republican in the summer of 1972. I was involved in running President Nixon's re-election campaign in California and became part of his administration at the start of his second term.
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Summertime and the livin' is easy,Fish are jumpin', and the cotton is high.Oh yo' daddy's rich, and yo' ma is good lookin',So hush, little baby, don' yo' cry.
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The people are starving. They need food; they need medicine; they need education. They do not need a skyscraper to house the ruling party and a 24-hour TV station.
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If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience.
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You cannot be responsible for salvation until first you've been responsible for sin.
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Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.
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We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
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I was interested in flying beginning at age 7, when a close family friend took me in his little airplane. And I remember looking at the wheel of the airplane as we rolled down the runway, because I wanted to remember the exact moment that I first went flying... the other thing growing up is that I was always interested in science.
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I write every day weekdays for about 5 hours, mostly longhand on legal pads. It has gotten neither harder nor easier, sadly or happily.
