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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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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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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Isn't that why people keep diaries - to be read by someone else? Why would they keep them otherwise?
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He bade me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters.
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When you have satire, it has to be real. No matter how outrageous the comedy becomes, you have to believe in the characters.
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Critics... They're like traffic cops. They say what they have to say, then leave, and another guy moves in ,and he has his say - and it's often just the opposite. The result is either critical acclaim or critical murder, and neither has any bearing on my music or direction.
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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.
