John Darnielle Quotes
I think any real one-sheet for an album would say, 'Well, here's what I've been doing.' And that would be it.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.
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I discovered cosplay because I was going to an anime convention and did some research, and found out people dressed up as characters. I made a very badly put-together costume because I felt this desire to dress up.
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I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.
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The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.
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My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock.
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Brain science will be the most popular science of the early twenty-first century.
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I learned that the first technology appeared in the form of stone tools, 2.6 million years ago. First entertainment comes evidence from flutes that are 35,000 years old. And evidence for first design comes 75,000 years old - beads. And you can do the same with your genes and track them back in time.
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While 'Friends' was about a 20-something population and what they were going through, they were also dealing with issues with their family.
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There is an interaction and action, reaction between two people. One should show honesty in a relationship. Be honest to your partner and tell him everything. How long can you do things with dishonesty and that's wrong. Don't get into a relationship if you can't be honest.
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In comics, there are depths that don't reveal themselves immediately, and the stuff that you might consider anal about 'Watching the Watchmen' - like the notes where I plot the rotation of a perfume bottle through the air - might not be particularly obvious to anyone who reads it.
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I've met Dick Syron. I like the guy. He's a man's man kind of character, a real charmer, the kind of guy you'd want to have a beer with, as well as being an economist of considerable repute.
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The martyrdom of Lalaji has shaken the Congressmen. Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru is planning something solid to be presented for adoption in the coming session of the Congress, but I am not sure if he would be able to do something.
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One in four sub-Saharan Africans is Nigerian, and it has 140 million dynamic people - chaotic people - but very interesting people.
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I think any real one-sheet for an album would say, 'Well, here's what I've been doing.' And that would be it.
