John Darnielle Quotes
I still can't manage to keep a journal, and people have been telling me to since the fourth grade.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
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In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.
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I don't want to get too philosophical, but in a sense, you're given this gift, this sort of creative force in you, and I think everyone has it, and it's completely unique to you. And you as a person have a little bit of a responsibility as its shepherd if you choose to incorporate that into your life.
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I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.
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Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan!
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
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I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.
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The Hispanic population in this country is not a monolith. When you're in Miami, the newscast is going to be different from the newscast in Los Angeles.
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I didn't live far from where Leopold and Loeb lived on Chicago's South Side, so I had heard about them as a kid.
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I guess I'm quite practical. Or at least like to think I am.
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This was something I always dreamed and wanted to be part of, when women's wrestling was freakin' cool, and now it is.
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They're very strong in memory. Didn't do very much in microprocessors or digital signal processing.
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I go onstage and I talk, and I remember what I'm saying, and I track it.
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Most people are overconfident about their own abilities. That is probably a good thing. But we would be horrified if a physician's aide engaged in heart surgery.
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I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes.
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I often plagiarize from myself. I like to think of this as ecological journalism: I recycle.
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The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings.
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I still can't manage to keep a journal, and people have been telling me to since the fourth grade.
