Daniel Handler Quotes
There are few sights sadder than a ruined book. -Lemony Snicket
Daniel Handler
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A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.
Dan Fogelman
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
Nate Berkus
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If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.
Samuel Hopkins
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
Vincent Cassel
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
C. K. Williams
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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it; so was my brother.
Eddie Van Halen
Van Halen
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I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
Calvin Trillin
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What happens is that, you know, on Mondays, at least in the Senate, you know, Monday night we'd have what you'd call a bed-check vote. Just to get, you know, the machinery of the Senate up and running so they can start the committee process; on Tuesday morning, things go. By Thursday, you know, jet fumes, the smell of jet fumes.
Olympia Snowe
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There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
P. J. O'Rourke
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
T. C. Boyle
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
Verne Troyer
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
Rachel Weisz
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The newspaper is in all its literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct.
Walter Lippmann
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If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times, and their parents are going to have to read it with them. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.
Mark Haddon
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Looking back on it now, I understand why that was not possible to express ourselves, because the pottery employed a dozen people, not all of whom are making pots. And these people had families, children, and they had to have a wage that would allow them to raise their family and they had to get a paycheck every Friday afternoon. So if we had not made pots that would sell it, would not have been possible for these people to be employed.
Warren MacKenzie
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As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
Madeleine Albright
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There are few sights sadder than a ruined book. -Lemony Snicket
Daniel Handler
