John Darnielle Quotes
Sometimes I do 'So Desperate' solo in the middle of the set. I really love to sing that song.
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In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.
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As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.
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We've got a great value proposition against Chromebooks, we are not ceding the market to anyone.
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Northwest Ohio is flat. There isn't much up. The land is so flat that a child from Toledo is under the impression that the direction hills go is down. Sledding is done down from street level into creek beds and road cuts.
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I eat super clean and am always watching what I eat.
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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Now I am within thirty yards of him. He must fall. The gun pours out its stream of lead. Then it jams. Then it reopens fire. That jam almost saved his life.
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My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe.
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I want to make this world perfect.
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My diet is always extremely important to me. I've taken a new approach to eating in terms of my blood type. I really don't eat much chicken, sugar, salts, or beef. Just eating clean and feeling so much better.
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I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.
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The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.
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I don't expect anything from anybody. When you grow old... Your days are gone; it is part of life.
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All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
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In the three years since our nation began operations in Iraq, more than 2,500 Americans have been killed and more than 18,000 Americans have been seriously wounded.
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One day, when I was 33, I shifted. I suddenly saw acting as a higher calling. I understood that my goal was to serve the play. And I realized if an actor can make audiences' hearts resonate or make them question their values - that's an important thing to do!
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The experience of having a child does crack you wide open. I felt like I suddenly had to rebuild the skin that I'd grown over the years before having a child. Perhaps that might be quite interesting in terms of acting.
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'What do you really think happens after you die?' That's the question that everyone, everyone, everyone asks. And I'm so sick of it. But my true answer is, I don't know. And there's no way I'm going to find out 'til it happens.
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Things are always going to evolve and change. You might not always like the direction of it, but people's tastes change.
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I think I hid my singing talent from a lot of my friends at school because I didn't want to alienate anyone. If everyone was singing along in the car to a Madonna song, I didn't join in because when we're younger we're afraid of sticking out or showing off, when in fact we should own those things that make us really unique.
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I've never forgotten a single record I cut or a song I wrote.
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Sometimes I do 'So Desperate' solo in the middle of the set. I really love to sing that song.
