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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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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With skill she vibrates her eternal tongue,Forever most divinely in the wrong.
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A party with a narrow vision, a party that is afraid of the future, a party whose leaders are inclined to shoot from the hip, a party that has never been willing to put its investment in human beings who are below them in economic and social status.
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I think there are three kinds of songs; it's only my theory: psychological, emotional, and spiritual. When you write psychologically or intellectually, you have a tune in your mind, and you re-write it. It's an intellectual approach. The emotional is my favorite because it comes from my kishkas; it comes from my soul.
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It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.
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I tend to not listen to my own music when I'm not working on it. No real reason other than it's nice to get away from it.
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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy - yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.
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Violet said...'We've never known anyone who could remain so cheerful, no matter what terrible things occurred.
