John Darnielle Quotes
To me, everything is always new. People involved in my personal life make fun of me a lot for not being jaded.
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.
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I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
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I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
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There's a finite amount of time on this planet for each of us. Sometimes, the only way we figure out how to deal with that reality - knowing that there will be an end to every story, and you don't know how many chapters are left in your book - is by living in denial.
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I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style.
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I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.
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It's nice to just be a kid and hang out with your friends at lunch.
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Our growing, robust economy is able to provide the average American citizen access to the best social program there is - a steady job.
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It's every boy's dream to play a superhero.
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The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich.
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Do you know that people fall in love in war and go to school and go to factories and hospitals and get divorced and go dancing and go playing and live life?
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There are stories I'd like to tell, I'd like to see, and they're not getting made. These stories are beyond the experience of the people in power. They don't understand it, so they're frightened of it.
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The original 'RoboCop' was X-rated, and then they had to cut it down so it became R-rated, and Verhoeven claimed that actually made the movie more violent, because it's what you don't see that actually scares you.
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Some people have this crazy talent that makes you tap into a human side as well, even with all their fame.
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To me, everything is always new. People involved in my personal life make fun of me a lot for not being jaded.
