Daniel Handler Quotes
Halloween seems to last forever, until it is finally time to put on one's costume and demand candy from strangers.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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I don't think I tell stories of tragedy. I think I tell stories of love. Even though you're full of tears, I hope that you leave the theatre with your heart feeling like it's going to explode out of your chest. And yes, you've been through the tragedy, but it's ultimately hope that I think you're left with.
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
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You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
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In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.
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I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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For economist the real world is often a special case.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.
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I am happy in Paris.
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They run off eckeltricity, do they?" he said knowledgeably. "Ah yes, I can see the plugs. I collect plugs," he added to Uncle Vernon. "And batteries. Got a large collection of batteries.
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We figured you could download live shows for days, so we decided to go for a cream-of-the-crop approach, but not just take the best vocal or the best performances.
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The explosion was now officially designated an 'Act of God.'But, thought Dirk, what god? And why?What god would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15:37 flight to Oslo?
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A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.
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Music is meaningless noise unless it touches a receiving mind.
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Halloween seems to last forever, until it is finally time to put on one's costume and demand candy from strangers.
