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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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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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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All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.
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When I was a toddler, my father cut hair in the townhouse we had shared together in Long Beach, California, where Dad was stationed with the U.S. Navy. The buzz of clippers consistently hummed as he gave fades to his coworkers, my uncles, and my brother, but his clippers were never oiled and plugged in for my head.
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I didn't want to be a comedian. I wanted to be an actor - maybe a comic actor, but a real actor - by real, I mean not a comedian. I wanted to be an actor.
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You have to be rather straightforward with your clients. You can't tell the parties only nice things. This is not an entertainment show; it's not reality television either.
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Simplicity is the key of elegance.
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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.
