Daniel Handler Quotes

I listen to Morricone, the famed Italian film composer, while I'm working.

Daniel Handler

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• I hadn't planned to be a model. It just happened by pure chance. I went to a beauty school with my sister, and I got discovered pretty late. I was discovered when I was 20-21.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Model

• I was naturalized right before Pearl Harbor. Nine days later, I would have been classified as an enemy alien. I might have been sent to a camp.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Enemy
  • Right
  • Alien

• I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Think
  • Words
  • Feelings

• To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Time
  • School
  • Health

• Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Good
  • Great
  • Quality

• Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Great
  • Character
  • Respect

• I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Like

• I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Problem
  • Model
  • Seeing

• Fortunately for me I was able to do well here, and it really did great things for my career and now hopefully I can go out there and continue to do what I did.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Career
  • Hopefully
  • Fortunately

• I got my own sound; nobody sounds like me.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Me
  • Sound
  • Nobody

• Problem-solving, inventing, hacking and coding is more of an adrenaline rush of endorphins rather than a feeling.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Feeling
  • More
  • Hacking

• If you take the fashion out of it, clothing has a lot of information - about how we feel about ourselves, how we'd like to feel about ourselves, and what we'd like to be: If you show up to an interview in sweatpants and a T-shirt, I'm going to deal with you in a really different way.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Up
  • Different
  • Way

• L'homme enfin n'est pas entièrement coupable - il n'a pas commencé l'histoire - ni tout à fait innocent, puisqu'il la continue.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Innocent

• The simplest formula for the new conception of morality, which is beginning to be opposed to the moral dogma still esteemed by all society, but especially by the women, might be summed up in these words: Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Up
  • Women
  • Society

• It's a great feeling knowing you've helped someone. That's what I've spent my life doing and my practice.

  

  Joe Jamail
  • Life
  • Great
  • Feeling

• Because when we think about the real facts: 44 million Americans without health insurance, millions without jobs, a 50-year high on mortgage foreclosures, an historic high the third year in a row on personal bankruptcies.

  Chaka Fattah
  • Real
  • High
  • Health

• It might sound a small thing, but if you want to get Tom Cruise into your movie, without a track record or without those agents knowing you, it's almost impossible. Now I can get through to pretty much anyone I want. Of course, 90 per cent of the time they still say no.

  

  Eric Fellner
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Pretty

• If I'm not clear with the character, I can't do anything with it. But once I get that character, the possibilities are endless. When you have such a defined character, I feel like I can actually read the phone book and make it funny.

  

  Eliza Coupe
  • Character
  • Book
  • Funny

• When incomes and bonuses decrease, revenues falter, and businesses stumble, it's more important than ever to give - not necessarily more, but in a way that matters more. When incomes are down and wallets are stretched, the effectiveness of our giving is what really counts.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Important
  • Giving
  • Down

• There's no question, I guarantee you, that you will see more NFL players getting into wrestling. They have the personality for it.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Question
  • Personality
  • Wrestling

• I was born in New York, but I was only here for two months. My parents are German, and I grew up in Germany for my first 10 years.

  

  Peter Hermann
  • Up
  • Parents
  • German

• I love making Italian food. And coconut chicken.

  

  Joe Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • Food
  • Italian

• I listen to Morricone, the famed Italian film composer, while I'm working.

  

  Daniel Handler
  • Italian