John Darnielle Quotes
Metal has its own code of cool, but it's not really trying to be cool. And that was very refreshing to me, that metal is very much about expressing something that seems awesome to you even if, at the time, much of the world was going to mock and reject it.
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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I'm a character actor.
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
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I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.
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President Obama was deeply and clearly affected by the Sandy Hook disaster.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don't want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you'd rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument.
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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Actors, after all, dream.
Nastassja Kinski -
Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.
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I've never seen anything so abhorrent in my life as Harry Reid. He's an equal opportunity basher. He goes after everybody, and I think it has been so, frankly, disgusting.
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The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.
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I feel like, in general, lefties hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers better than right-handers hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers.
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When I was 16, I had a really big hit in the K-pop world. It was a hip-hop/R&B/pop song. I kinda strayed from that because of the writers I was hanging out with.
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Marriage is something I'd recommend everyone to try, if you find the right person, of course.
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I think maybe because I do other things and they mean as much to me as movie acting, it takes the onus off me. It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens.
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I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them.
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The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.
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Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.
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You know, I was once named Minor League Player of the Year... unfortunately, I had been in the majors for two years at the time.
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I believe that even the worst people on the planet believe that they are somehow justified in their neurosis.
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Part of me misses the days when we have four channels in England and we were all talking about everything all the time.
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Metal has its own code of cool, but it's not really trying to be cool. And that was very refreshing to me, that metal is very much about expressing something that seems awesome to you even if, at the time, much of the world was going to mock and reject it.
