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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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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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
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Since space is continuous, it follows that there must be an immediate community of feeling between parts of mind infinitesimally close together. Without this, I believe it would have been impossible for any co-ordination to be established in the action of the nerve-matter of one brain.
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When I'm playing, I play what I want, but I make sure that the crowd is going to love it at the same time. It's like a balancing act, a mix of two, a perfect circle... if you do it right.
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All of that is constantly operating when you not only learn, but when you recall. But as you recall in a different light, the weights with which something is more probably going to be or not recalled on the next instance, are going to be changed. So you're constantly changing the way, for instance, synapses are going to fire very easily or not so easily.
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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.
