John Darnielle Quotes

Something I've learned being in this industry for so long is that if you want to work with somebody, call them up. Very few musicians have any illusions about genre boundaries. They are useful descriptive terms, but they don't really bind musicians.

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• I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Know
  • Never
  • Feel

• Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Things
  • Test
  • Certainty

• It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Nature
  • Right
  • Been

• Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Real
  • Ideas

• Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Understanding
  • Choose
  • Cats

• Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Live

• The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • World
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Mind
  • Running

• I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Trying
  • Myself
  • Accomplish

• So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Earth
  • Just
  • saw

• I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • War
  • Peace
  • Confidence

• Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Time
  • Nice
  • Sky

• Let me tell you, my career went from zero to 900. Its hard keeping up with that pace, but I wouldn't trade it for anything else in the world.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Up
  • World
  • Career

• My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.

  

  Okky Madasari
  • Work
  • May
  • Society

• If anyone should be executed, it should be Charles Manson. Do I go around during the daytime, 'Geez, I'm upset that he's alive'? No, I don't even think about him. I don't think about this case.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Think
  • Him
  • Upset

• Our relationships are precious, valuable treasures from heaven, and we should handle them carefully, always looking for ways to build bridges to each other's hearts.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Heaven
  • Relationships
  • Bridges

• I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Energy
  • Angry
  • Used

• These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Nature
  • Environmental
  • Days

• If I have a career in theater, and nobody knows who I am, I'm all right with that.

  

  Lucas Hedges
  • Career

• I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.

  

  Brian K. Vaughan
  • Help
  • Angry
  • Confused

• I would like to trade places with my sister. I think that would be really interesting. She's three years younger than me, and she's a gymnast. She goes to gymnastics, like, every single day, and that's a whole other world to me, and I think that would be very interesting.

  

  Angourie Rice
  • World
  • She
  • Interesting

• New Domestic Animals. I want to have my lion and my eagle about me, that I may always have hints and premonitions concerning the amount of my strength or weakness. Must I look down on them today, and be afraid of them? And will the hour come once more when they will look up to me, and tremble?

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • May
  • Today

• Every movie changes you. The process of making a film changes you.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • Movie

• Something I've learned being in this industry for so long is that if you want to work with somebody, call them up. Very few musicians have any illusions about genre boundaries. They are useful descriptive terms, but they don't really bind musicians.

  

  John Darnielle
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