John Darnielle Quotes

When I'm writing a song, I'm just making stuff up as I go along.

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• When I was maybe 22, 23 years old or so, I was sort of floating in between New Japan, Ring of Honor, TNA - not really committed to one place.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Honor
  • New
  • Ring

• Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Real
  • Marriage
  • Gay

• Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Face
  • Paint
  • Inside

• I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Think

• I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Like
  • Him
  • Often

• Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Wisdom

• At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • People
  • Long
  • War

• I remember my very first audition for a film. I was in Seattle. They were taping the session, and I just went crazy. The director finally said, 'Zoe, what are you doing? The camera's right here. Just talk to me.' And it took that director saying that to me to change everything.

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • Remember
  • Change
  • Me

• One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Money

• So if Arizona sees the federal government isn't assuming its responsibilities, it creates local laws. But migration and keeping security on the borders is not a local or state issue, it's a federal issue.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Government
  • Security
  • Laws

• I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Hate
  • Always
  • Again

• On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • True
  • Die
  • Play

• The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Poetry
  • Special
  • Japanese

• Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • Water
  • Jesus

• I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Great
  • Never
  • Said

• I'm not hiding anything. What you see is what you get.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • You
  • See
  • Hiding

• I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Artist

• Some of the best tape that I've ever studied was Mike Shanahan and John Elway in Denver, back-to-back Super Bowl win teams.

  

  Jon Gruden

• Somebody said the key to life is to work hard, play hard, rest hard, and I've pretty much adopted that.

  

  James Patterson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Pretty

• Readers tend to devour short stories on a newssheet, but would be disinclined to read them in collections

  

  Leslie Poles Hartley

• When I'm writing a song, I'm just making stuff up as I go along.

  

  John Darnielle
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