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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The first thing you've got to do is know your craft, and then you can do something else with it.
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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.
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We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item.
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The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be."
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Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.
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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.
