Daniel Handler Quotes
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You can't bank on the outcome.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.
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I myself feel that I'm a well-rounded player and got a lot better defensively and without the puck as time has gone on.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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Now that I've achieved my goal to win the belt, I want to be the best of all times. I want to be remembered as the lightweight with most title defenses.
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As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death.
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I don't mind playing spoiler.
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I've always had very catholic tastes.
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I'm a smoky eye girl. I love playing with eye colors, metallics... fun stuff!
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I like being by myself.
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I reveled in the most basic rules and techniques that are the foundation of professional cooking. For example, it is essential to use a sharp knife: the sharper the knife, the more fluid and precise your work and the less likely you are to get hurt. Dull knives are a danger - they slip far more often.
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I'm a failed musician rather than a successful writer.
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Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.
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On this planet, there is no perfection. If you chose to end relationships because of one mistake, you're going to be alone.
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That's how it's been for us. It's been unbelievable. We've literally won and lost for 19 straight games dating to last season. The good news is last year I would have died for that. The bad news is that we can't get on a winning streak.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.
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A lot of period pieces we see are adaptations of novels - we always know the story.
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Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
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Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.
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I can't stand the lyrics.
