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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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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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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What I see in science is a lot of imagination referring to things that are fundamental to what we are. Our cells, our history, our future, our place in the universe, our lack of place in the universe. That's poetry as far as I'm concerned.
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Our job, as writers is to do our jobs.
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I understand how hard it is to force yourself to be someone different. By the end of high school, I had taken to doing my math homework up against a concealed wall during lunch because I was tired of socializing.
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The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure.
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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.
