Daniel Handler Quotes
I'm always interested to see what films are made of books. I kind of don't participate as a filmgoer in any kind of debate about what's better, the book or the movie. So I think it's interesting when people want to do it.
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.
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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
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I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.
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I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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My best friend is my husband.
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'Entourage' was a show that existed around wish-fulfillment. People watched it because they wanted to believe they could go on private jets and be hanging out in Hollywood, but as a show, comedically, it was not funny. Not a funny show. It's funny, ironically, because of how terrible it is.
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I was a weird but definite kid, and there were essentially no gender roles for me to fit into.
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The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.
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And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.
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We need to assure that we are nurturing our children and meeting their every need in this violent world.
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Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it receives permission to be otherwise useless. We do not blame emeralds and rubies because we cannot make them into heads of hammers.
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Reading is exercise for our brains in the guise of pleasure. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them.
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When I see young people interested in music. I always look out for that passion in their eyes. You never know where that might lead.
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I'm always interested to see what films are made of books. I kind of don't participate as a filmgoer in any kind of debate about what's better, the book or the movie. So I think it's interesting when people want to do it.
