Daniel Handler Quotes
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With my son, I tried not to be so judgmental and tried not to push him so hard. I didn't want him to feel that everything or that our love for him will be based on how much he has achieved.
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I feel comfortable whenever I step on the floor.
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Elves live in harmony with the world, and I try to do that.
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I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.
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There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.
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I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.
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The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
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There are boxing fans, and there are fans of the UFC. People want to see blood, but people like both.
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Surround yourself with great people. People are what make businesses prosper.
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I've always challenged myself and the people who work with me to take new approaches to traditional business challenges, to push the envelope and constantly ask whether our sacred cows are still producing great milk.
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I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.
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The Jews were gassed. Armenians were killed in every conceivable way... So the Holocaust doesn't interest me, see? They've had a lot of publicity, but they didn't suffer as much.
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I don't need to publish to make a living.
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To young people born under the weird planet of the SAT, intelligence was equated with agility, with raw acuity. It produced a certain sort of person of which I was a typical specimen: the mental contortionist, able to rise to almost every challenge placed before him, except the challenge of real self-knowledge.
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What others call magic realism is normal and an everyday thing to me.
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The first thing I wrote was a one-act play that got accepted at a one-act play festival, and I was in it along with Nathan Lane and a couple of other very good actors.
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My website's kind of fun for me. I get to do drawings on that. It's kind of fun.
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The people run the country. So if people didn't want you shooting in their neighborhood, there's no authority that can tell them they have to. That's why it's called the People's Republic of China.
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I'm obsessed with 'New York' magazine.
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For me space rock is something that takes you out of yourself and out of your normal realm. And if space happens to be that inner space or outer space it's a very personal thing. I think that mantra is space music. I think that Native American tribal drumming is space music. Anything that allows you to go inward to go outward and to move within a space that is not normal to your reality.
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The one day you don't go into practice and use that day to the fullest is the one day someone is going to beat you.
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Lemony Snicket
