John Darnielle Quotes
I love Joan Didion, but I love her writing. I don't think meeting her could solve my problems or make me understand the world better.
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I've worked so hard since I was 18 years old, and I'd hate for the memories to be boiled down to being a Melania Trump impersonator.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.
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In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.
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I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'
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I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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Anything by Lorrie Moore speaks to a certain kind of person.
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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
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Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.
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When I think of my work, I'm aware that I'm American and African at all points and times. And without a doubt, my experience and understanding of America was shaped by having immigrant parents.
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The thing is, one in three women in the Western world will end up having an abortion, but they never talk about it. When you keep silent about that stuff, it is because you are embarrassed by the societal distaste of the topic.
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I love Joan Didion, but I love her writing. I don't think meeting her could solve my problems or make me understand the world better.
