Daniel Handler Quotes

For Beatrice-When we were together I felt breathless. Now, you are.-Lemony Snicket

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• I've said before, the number one thing that we have to work on is protecting the gay community from sharia law. Now, in the United States, it's probably not a big issue right now, but my brother-in-law is gay, and his partner and I would like them to be able to travel any place in the world without them risking harm.

  

  Foster Friess
  • World
  • Work
  • Law

• There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Women
  • Business
  • Man

• I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Know

• I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Everyone
  • Terrorism
  • Hamas

• I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favorites. I could watch it over and over again.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Time
  • Love
  • Movie

• I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Way
  • Never
  • Air

• 'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Loved
  • Negative
  • Been

• No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • People
  • Happy
  • Dream

• Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Hurt

• I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Alone
  • Rights
  • Indians

• Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Physics
  • Structure
  • Planned

• When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can't really say that one experience is greater than another, because all of your experiences take you through life on this journey.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Experience

• I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Kids
  • You
  • Problem

• There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Friends
  • Laugh
  • Fair

• There's no social realism in 'Tyrannosaur.' It's not about the social landscape or the political landscape or any of that. It's just about human beings. I never made 'Tyrannosaur' in reference to anybody - I just made it because I had to make my own films.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Political
  • Own
  • Landscape

• In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Society
  • Complaining

• For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Up
  • Time
  • Years

• I was born with an evil face.

  

  Barry Sloane
  • Evil
  • Born
  • Face

• I get along with the Democrats, but please - I'm not their hero.

  

  John McCain
  • Hero

• Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.

  

  Gerald Stanley Lee
  • Moral
  • Turning
  • Cheek

• Certainly when, you know, you put a lot of creative people together, there's ego and tension and all that stuff comes into play. But on the flip side, there's a lot of camaraderie and closeness.

  

  Darren Star
  • People
  • Together
  • Ego

• The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together.

  

  William Hague
  • Country
  • Together
  • Views

• I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Mind
  • Book
  • Together

• For Beatrice-When we were together I felt breathless. Now, you are.-Lemony Snicket

  

  Daniel Handler
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