John Darnielle Quotes
I've written a lot about southern California, but I don't use the same characters. Leave the people in the songs in the songs, is my philosophy.
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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We're proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and gives our lives to it.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.
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Along with enough sleep and taking proper supplements, I steam - in my steam shower. I find it's very healing, more than just your typical 'tea and honey.'
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It's the irrational things that interest me.
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I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.
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'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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I always like to find those little mom-and-pop sandwich places, or diners. Those are my favorite kind of places.
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You don’t need help to write a song. You just need to get over this experience that bummed you out so bad. The relationship you were in is over, it was over a long time ago, and you need to move on.
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Well, I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake.
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I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where our souls belong....The only solution is to confront them - confront yourself - with the greatest fear imaginable. Expose yourself to your deepest fear. After that, fear has no power, and fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
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I've written a lot about southern California, but I don't use the same characters. Leave the people in the songs in the songs, is my philosophy.
