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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I can't work without music.
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The late Indira Gandhi always used to warn about the dangers that the country was facing. She used to keep saying that the country was going through a very dangerous time. This danger is now many times more than what it was at that time. We should all be cautious now.
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Whoopi Goldberg looked like me, she had hair like mine, she was dark like me. I'd been starved for images of myself. I'd grown up watching a lot of American TV. There was very little Kenyan material, because we had an autocratic ruler who stifled our creative expression.
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I was the one with a subscription to 'Sky and Telescope' magazine as a kid while my friends were reading 'Tiger Beat.'
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Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body.
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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.
