Daniel Handler Quotes
Violet said...'We've never known anyone who could remain so cheerful, no matter what terrible things occurred.
Quotes to Explore
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.
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Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
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I've just always been a bit of a dork.
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Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.
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At one point, we were across the street from the Sharon Tate house; at another, we lived in Elvis's old Bel Air bachelor pad. It was where he first met the Beatles.
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The English king's power was curbed by Parliament, though that wasn't always a good thing, as politicians often behave no better than monarchs - there are just more of them.
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When we start to write for a new record, we never really know what we're doing. We don't come into the room with a set of ideas, but miraculously, a song comes out of it.
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Your goal as a candidate - define others before they can define you.
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You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.
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Taiwan has been so well developed economically. But we are underdeveloped culturally.
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You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.
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People have different views of how you deal with different issues in literature, and, frankly, long may it last that there is a range of views.
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I know who Jack Whittaker is. And some days I don't like who I am.
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'...it is inappropriate for a public activist to wear a niqab, since people want to see you. The Islamic faith does not mandate wearing a niqab; it is just a social tradition.'
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Honesty is a gift we can give to others. It is also a source of power and an engine of simplicity. Knowing that we will attempt to tell the truth, whatever the circumstances, leaves us with little to prepare for. We can simply be ourselves.
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Larry poured himself a coffee. 'I hate when they come in here with computers. They sit forever at their tables, and they don't talk to nobody, it's like having a place full of statues or zombies.'
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A master was once unmoved by the complaints of his disciples that, though they listened with pleasure to his parables and stories, they were also frustrated for they longed for something deeper. To all their objections he would simply reply: 'You have yet to understand, my friends, that the shortest distance between a human being and truth is a story.'
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Art is craft, not inspiration.
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Yeah, but in the end his followers take what they want from his philosophy. Maybe it doesn't matter what's going on in David Icke's mind. It's how other people take him.
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My drawings have been described as pre-intentionalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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I'm really a clean-cut kid.
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Violet said...'We've never known anyone who could remain so cheerful, no matter what terrible things occurred.
