John Darnielle Quotes

My favorite movies are gory horror films. I love Faulkner. I wanted to see the most painful things possible.

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• I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Work
  • Want
  • Just

• It's very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I'm not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA trained chef.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Rights

• I don't eat any red meat.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Red
  • Eat
  • Meat

• After 'Rent,' I tried to make a record, and it didn't work out, and it was the Broadway community that welcomed me back. It's where I feel the most understood, most at home.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Work
  • Home
  • Community

• I think that talented people really do have insecurities, and that is one of the things that kind of motivates them, because that's one thing they know they're good at. And when they're up on that stage, you can do no wrong. The audience is yours; they're there to see you.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• There are many things that people do happily that I can't imagine why they would do it... But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, I'm not critical of people individually. We are who we are.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Society
  • Critical

• The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • America
  • Parents
  • Doing

• I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small but they like the movies.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Kids
  • Small
  • Movies

• I love Le'Veon Bell.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Bell

• When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Career
  • Focus
  • Look

• I don't want to be taller; I want to be myself.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Taller

• We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • She
  • Past
  • Freedom

• Much of the prejudice against Islam in the West stems from a lack of understanding of the true nature of Islam as a religion professed by 1.4 billion people in the world.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • People
  • World
  • True

• Commercial rock ’n’ roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music … an obscene looting of a cultural expression.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Music
  • Church
  • Rock

• Light finds her treasure of colours through the antagonism of clouds.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Light
  • Clouds

• For all their incoherence and senseless rage, their message is attractive to those layers of the population who yearn for some order in their lives. If the fanatics promise to feed them and educate their children they are prepared to forgo the delights of CNN and BBC World.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • Children
  • Promise

• BULLLLLSHIT!!

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag

• If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Writing
  • You
  • Rock

• I always have a ping-pong table in the studio. If you're with an artist and you notice the situation is going south a little bit, it's like, 'You wanna play ping-pong or foosball?' Or, 'You wanna go grab somethin' to eat?' And then you just like talk to them and relax them and get them comfortable and get yourself comfortable.

  

  Benny Blanco
  • Relax

• I've never done it, but I think if you do a Google search for 'People who will help me travel across the country to meet my online love,' I'm probably the only person that comes up.

  

  Nev Schulman
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• My favorite movies are gory horror films. I love Faulkner. I wanted to see the most painful things possible.

  

  John Darnielle