Daniel Handler Quotes
'Yeah, I have a question,' said the guy with the wicked eyes... 'My question is, I quit. I'm going to quit.'
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
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I love cooking and baking.
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.
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I shampoo every other day and only do the roots. I can't shampoo all the way down to the end, because it will dry my hair out. I use a mask multiple times a week to restore moisture.
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When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
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My childhood was appalling.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.
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If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.
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Amazon is such a big player in publishing, but a lot of authors feel this connection to their publishing house and their editors who helped them get their books out there, so their loyalties tend to go that way.
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I think that the problem with network television is that they cling to the whole business model like they are clinging to the side of a cliff.
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The goal of Australian foreign policy should be to promote the maximum harmony between the U.S. and China.
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I never learned how to be adequately black. I never learned how to be black at all.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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Remember, ask and you shall receive. If you ask a terrible question, you'll get a terrible answer. Your mental computer is ever ready to serve you, and whatever question you give it, it will surely come up with an answer.
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'Yeah, I have a question,' said the guy with the wicked eyes... 'My question is, I quit. I'm going to quit.'
