Daniel Handler Quotes
she gave me a puzzled frown like she thought offhand i was dead but the media's so unreliable these days.
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings.
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Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.
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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.
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'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
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Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
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I love working with a cast and a group of people every day, which is different than recording because you're usually pretty isolated and alone. They serve as a good balance for each other.
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room were telling me. I never see letters or sentences when I write or read, but only the images they produce.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.
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My mother was one of the most dynamic and brilliant women I have ever known. She was also mercurial and unfocused.
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On eroding, ecologically degraded, increasingly toxic landscapes, worked by failing or subsidy-dependent farmers and by the cheap labor of migrants, we have erected the tottering tower of 'agribusiness,' which prospers and 'feeds the world' (incompletely and temporarily) by undermining its own foundations.
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Just as incarceration has come to define the lives of low-income black men, eviction is defining the lives of low-income black women.
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Les amants qui aiment bien n'écrivent pas leur bonheur.
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Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal. It was a conventional opening, the equivalent of straying off the path in the wild woods in one age, or a car breaking down at night on a lonely road in another.
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she gave me a puzzled frown like she thought offhand i was dead but the media's so unreliable these days.
