Daniel Handler Quotes
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My job is to train hard, go fight, and do my best.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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To play something which is a big spectrum is so much more fun, so much more of a challenge.
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I'm not slim. I'm a curvy girl: I've got thighs and a bum. I don't mind baring the fact that I've got a bit of cellulite because everybody has. I find it off-putting when everybody on telly is the same size or looks the same build. For me, it's important for people to watch someone normal.
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And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.
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When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.
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Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.
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When I was a kid, 'Blade Runner' was my favorite movie. I remember seeing that when I was a little boy with my dad.
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When you're as plain as I am, you've gotta have a gimmick.
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If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don't mean she wouldn't pay the bank, but the children always came first.
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Within the U.S., you could have argued that most people who watch 'Mad Men' would watch 'House of Cards.' But the viewing is much more on par with the large-scale mainstream things like 'The Walking Dead.' It was much younger than we thought.
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I did not become great by association of The Beatles! Beatles make Maharishi great? Pah! It is a waste of thought.
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I think God has it written down for me, that without training and working hard you will never achieve desired results. All three times I have had to toil my way into the Olympics. Talking about pressure, well that is something you have to learn to deal with in sports.
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People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work.
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I feel there are tone singers, and there are more vocal gymnastics singers. And I think that's amazing when people can do that, but I think there's room for the tone singers. And there aren't a lot of them.
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My theory about why Hemingway killed himself is that he heard his own voice; that he reached the point where he couldn't write without feeling he was repeating himself. That's the worst thing that can happen to a writer.
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Small business is America's engine of job creation.
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When people ask me exactly how much time I spend in each country, I always tell them I have no idea.
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Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him. Christianity is a faith in which God sends his son to die for you.
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Depression means that you have no point of view.
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Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and public spirited, it is not worth the trouble taken to furnish it.
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If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph.
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There's a great deal of scientific evidence that social connectedness is a very strong protector of emotional well-being, and I think there's no question that social isolation has greatly increased in our culture in, say, the past 50 years, past 100 years.
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Violet: You are being unbearable, with a U!
