John Darnielle Quotes
Once you start talking to people, you find out there's a lot more wrestling fans than you think there are.
Quotes to Explore
-
I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
-
I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
-
In the future, I want to have super-fights.
-
Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.
-
If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
-
Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
-
I've never, ever done a piece of work - and can't imagine doing a piece of work - when I've thought, 'I was pretty perfect in that.'
-
I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
-
I want to expand the compassionate conservative agenda. I believe life begins in the womb, and we should protect it. But it extends to a child in Darfur or someone living in poverty.
-
I'm an emotional person.
-
The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
-
We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
-
The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
-
During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.
-
You don't want people rooting for anything other than the team that they love and the players that they think the world of to win. We don't want there to be another agenda.
-
I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.
-
Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
-
I love walks, hiking, exploring and being on the beach.
-
I think that sometimes we put undue pressure on stories featuring people of color, and I hope we get to a point where it's not such a rarity to see a person of color be the hero of a story, so that it can just be a story and not have to carry so much weight.
-
I miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies, so we'd have Godzilla movie marathons. Those are some of my favorite memories, laughing at how the monster outfits were so bad, like black garbage bags for heads.
-
I think any cancer patient, if you dig not too deeply, they want to live.
-
Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
-
Once you start talking to people, you find out there's a lot more wrestling fans than you think there are.
