Daniel Handler Quotes
I kind of always think my work is unfilmable, and when I meet people who are interested in filming it, I'm always stunned.
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
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I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'
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I don't think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it's a country issue. I don't think worrying about the reindustrialization of America is a Republican or Democratic issue.
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Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.
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I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
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You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.
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I was pretty nervous when I met Robert DeNiro. I kind of felt like a kid in a candy store for the first time. I couldn't wipe the grin off of my face. But Bobby DeNiro was really, really sweet and made me feel very comfortable. He's very low-key and just a superstar professional, and totally someone to be admired.
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I've always supported new music from classic bands, especially if it's good.
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If children have an interest in nature, they will understand. I want them to become people who appreciate the consequences the next generation will suffer if we destroy our natural surroundings. So without a doubt, they need to learn that nature is vital to us by experiencing it. I want them to like nature and to climb mountains and so on.
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I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music.
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You can tell when someone is driven by labels. If something is couture, they think it's important and wear it and sometimes make a terrible fashion mistake. People are shocked that I know so little about designers.
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Every entrepreneur knows how agonizingly difficult it is to make the decision to give it your all, knowing that failure is inevitable; the successful ones know that the only way to get back up is through learning from that failure.
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Some of my friends snowmobile. I'm a little scared of it.
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I go to London, my favourite city in the world, and I feel at home.
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I now found that the spider cannot fix its thread to anything without imprinting the hind part of its body on the place, by which pressure it emits an incredible number of excessively small threads diverging in every direction from whence we may conclude that as soon as the threads are exposed to the air, they lose their viscosity or gluey quality.
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I kind of always think my work is unfilmable, and when I meet people who are interested in filming it, I'm always stunned.
