Daniel Handler Quotes
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Miss Sarzin was the best teacher I ever had.
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The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.
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Some smashes have been timed at more than 250 mph, so you get less than a second to react. People who see a professional badminton match up close are always shocked at the speed.
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I was a child actor. I was this spaz kid diagnosed with ADHD, and I worked all the time.
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As a kid, my grandma would be dancing all the time.
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Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.
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I was eight years old when Miley Cyrus made her debut on Disney Channel's 'Hannah Montana' and beginning my senior year of high school when she delivered the VMAs performance that single-handedly butchered the teddy-bear industry.
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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
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You want to live your own life, but when you have fame, there are certain things you can't get away with.
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Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.
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My girlfriend looks a little like Charlize Theron...and a lot like Patrick Ewing.
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You will come in any case - so why not now? How long I wait and wait. The bad times fall. I have put out the light and opened the door for you, because you are simple and magical. Assume, then, any form that suits your wish, take aim, and blast at me with poisoned shot, or strangle me like an efficient mugger, or else infect me - typhus be my lot -
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With comedy, I think it's so important, especially in TV, to know and trust what the writers are writing and just have it down.
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I don't like to talk about other bands in interviews.
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Whether it's singing, modeling, acting, you name it, they always label you as the YouTuber, the social media kid, the social media star. It's something that I've heard - a lot - but I kind of just put it to the side.
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I couldn't possibly have any regrets, because I've been very lucky, I've been celebrated, and I've survived. I couldn't have one single regret. That would be absurd.
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I'm constantly paranoid that I'll be unemployed for the rest of my life... and have to go back folding shirts at the Gap, which you know... you gotta do what you gotta do.
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Not to compare an actor to a painter, but you can go through different phases and still be the same artist, y'know?
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If I'm not on tour or doing a show, I'm in the studio.
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People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
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For me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.
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If you make a film set in London or in Pakistan or wherever, the thing that interests me is the relationships between individuals - individuals and society, individuals and their family, their girlfriend or boyfriend, it's all the same idea.
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I can cook anything.
