John Darnielle Quotes
To me, the only good reason to be touring is if you still have something good to share instead of just revisiting past glories.
Quotes to Explore
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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At one time or another, we have all faced the temptation to disconnect by giving someone the silent treatment. After being married to Joel for more than twenty-one years, I have learned that is not the best way to handle a disagreement.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.
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Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.
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My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.
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Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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I want to serve the people.
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Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
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Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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If your child is born with a port-wine stain, they should be seen immediately by a pediatric dermatologist. Your pediatrician does not understand these birthmarks as well as a specialist.
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In the old parts of Nice, the family tables are out in the cobbled streets so that you can't drive past. They insist you join them at midnight on a hot July evening. So that's just what you do, abandoning the car.
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Once all the Germans were warlike and mean But that couldn't happen again We taught them a lesson in nineteen eighteen And they've hardly bothered us since then
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I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.
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The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty.
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To me, the only good reason to be touring is if you still have something good to share instead of just revisiting past glories.
