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 don't know what caused my tinnitus, but I started to become aware of a very low ringing noise in my right ear, which is now constantly there.
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As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!
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If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken with it; for with his money the government can, and will, hire soldiers to stand over him, compel him to submit to its arbitrary will, and kill him if he resists.
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My impression is the Trump administration is in imminent danger of violating the gunfighter's credo, which is 'Do not pick seven fights if you are carrying a six shooter.'
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I don't like making my job easier. How are you accomplishing anything if there's no struggle? If I have to create a struggle that doesn't exist, I'll do that. Time and money constraints are a great way to do it.
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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.
