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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Ted Cruz is not the official spokesman for American conservatism. If you want somebody who has been out there, who has offered an alternative - the person who offered an alternative, for example, is... Paul Ryan.
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I talked a lot early on in my career about intersectionality and how racism and classism and sexism and homophobia and capitalism are all connected with each other, and they're these crazy systems that are feeding on each other and are also damaging. I can't even go into the whole spectrum of it. But I feel like kids today are so much more savvy about that conversation. And I'm so thrilled when I get to meet younger people who are doing that so much better than I did.
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On the road and traveling - that's when people are at their most creative.
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When a great artist gets my attention, I pursue it. If I don't, someone else will, you know what I'm saying?
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Not a great deal is known about the factors in childhood that doubtless underlie a person's choice of career - I'm talking now about a career to which one is passionately committed, in contradistinction to a career chosen merely as a means of earning a living.
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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.
