John Darnielle Quotes
Back in the '90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.
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In combat sports, personalities are what draw.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
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I don't laugh out loud at comics a lot.
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The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
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Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
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Rob Neill has a deep appreciation for the law and the role it can play in the lives of families. Rob's sincere desire to serve and his impressive experience will make him the kind of judge who will change lives and impact families in a positive way.
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I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.
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I've always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a little while. I honestly think, even today, that would be the other career I would go into. Somehow I would be involved with animals.
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All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
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When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
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I turn my negatives into my positives because one of my mottos is, 'Yesterday's history, tomorrow's a mystery,' meaning that you can't go back and change anything in the past.
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We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.
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Wuxia is a fantasy world exists in everyone's mind.
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I was good. I probably could have gone to the NFL. I just hated practice.
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Our music, you either get it or you don't. There's no middle ground.
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I made the big turnaround in the early Nineties when I started hearing all the tenth generation punk bands like Green Day and Offspring and all those people. It just made me fall in love with punk again and remember my roots, and since that time I've always wanted to do more of that kind of music again.
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If somebody says, 'Well, what are your favorite composers?' really, what they are saying is, 'What are your favorite composers apart from Bach?' Because obviously, Bach is your favorite composer if you are involved in music at all.
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Back in the '90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.
