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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The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later?
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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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Blindness is an unfortunate handicap but true vision does not require the eyes.
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With Clinton, there's no question that I would have made fun of his out-and-out lying. But he's also a good friend.
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But as you say, the fundamental stumbling block is the question of the future of the economy. And it's not just the sort of economic laboratory question, of what kind of system would best generate growth, which is the way it's presented.
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Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.
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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.'
