Daniel Handler Quotes
Why, you're all grown up! The last time I saw you I was trying to throw thumbtacks into your cradle!
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In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.
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We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.
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I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.
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I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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I warm up with my mom and make sure I understand what the songs are about and make sure I'm using the right technique. To be honest with you, I really don't practice a lot... Usually, I say a prayer and ask the Lord to sing with me and help me and stand on the stage with me.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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When I got out of high school, I started breaking out. I tried everything from A to Z as far as seeing doctors and getting prescriptions. I even did home remedies, and I had no luck. A fan gave me Proactiv, and it cleared my skin, but there were too many steps. I lose everything, and I lost one of the products. My acne started to come back.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.
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You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
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Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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It's no secret that I wear a kippa.
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Until I carried my wife off to New Hampshire, she defined wilderness as the Bronx.
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So many people have asked me about getting their own LEGO Oscar that I submitted it to LEGO Ideas so that everyone has the ability to get one.
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When no one's buying your records, it's easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can't really justify having two songs in Cadillac commercials. It looks greedy. And it is greedy. This whole music thing should be about music.
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I have to feel the audience. I enjoy that feeling of community. There's something sort of spiritual about it in a lot of ways. It's like we're all doing this together.
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When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.
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You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere.
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My mom wasn't a fan of public school systems. She was scared of letting me go. So, she home-schooled my siblings and I, and she was desperately trying to find something for me to do for an extracurricular. She was trying to socialize me, so she put me in community theater, and I was instantly taken by it.
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Why, you're all grown up! The last time I saw you I was trying to throw thumbtacks into your cradle!
