John Darnielle Quotes
A book is a journey: It's a thing you agree to go on with somebody, and I think every reader's experience of a book is going to be different.

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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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I never mind talking about my dad. I'm proud of who he is, and being his son is one of the things I'm most proud of. To be constantly compared to someone so brilliant, who happens to be your dad, is cool.
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Christina can sing all the notes, but Britney is just hot!
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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The latter 1940s and early '50s were a time of tense, explosive conflict, in the world at large and in the politics of our nation.
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Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.
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I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.
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I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!
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It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
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I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.
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If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available.
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It's like deja-vu, all over again.
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I'm the easiest person to make fun of.
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The detail is as important as the essential is. When it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit.
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San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans.
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You know, I've had my ups and downs.
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Part of the joy of music is listening to lots of different kinds of music and learning from it. Specifically for me, I like writing songs that move me, and what moves me are beautiful songs on the piano or the guitar and really, really heavy music.
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A book is a journey: It's a thing you agree to go on with somebody, and I think every reader's experience of a book is going to be different.