Daniel Handler Quotes
'The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for 'All The Wrong Questions'.Daniel Handler
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
E. Stanley Jones -
It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson -
I'm not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone's socks off with my joy of traversing the world by foot.
Mackenzie Davis -
I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
Zaha Hadid -
Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
Dakota Johnson
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
Malcolm Gladwell -
In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
Salman Rushdie -
I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.
Dak Prescott -
I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
Nancy Reagan -
I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
Baz Luhrmann
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At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.
Patrick Lencioni -
I'm a darned good listener.
Naomi Judd -
I'm an artist, and I'm a bit weird, and I'm probably a bit eccentric.
FKA twigs -
If you're biking more and walking more, you're going to be happier and healthier. And you'll probably feel better if you take out less garbage, as most of us feel pretty crappy about that. But I don't think we can mistake those acts for doing what it takes to address a crisis at a global level.
Naomi Klein -
You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
Harold Prince -
The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn't think I was set for life, and I don't now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich.
Fran Tarkenton
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To me, torture would be watching sports on television.
Quentin Tarantino -
We've been trying to open the gates of communication between Havana and Miami through art, which is apolitical most of the time: It doesn't have anything to do with politics and is only an exchange of ideas.
Jorge M. Perez -
I told the waiter I was looking for a hotel whose name I didn't know on a street whose name I didn't know and could he help me; we both laughed and he said: Aren't we all.
Ben Lerner -
When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
Flannery O'Connor -
'The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for 'All The Wrong Questions'.
Daniel Handler