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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'Humanity has evolved-as far as it has evolved,' continued the old priest, 'with no thanks to its predecessors or itself. Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.''Empathy,' Aenea said softly.
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I am the heavyweight champion of the world, and the greatest heavyweight you have seen for a long while. With Tyson on the card, it is definitely an added bonus because Lewis-Tyson on the same card would be a great doubleheader. This is what the fans want to see.
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My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.
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Long before 9/11 and the war in Iraq, a lot of people hated the United States and the West. But what the Iraqi war seems to have done, at least in... I mean, I'm just reporting what I see from the people on the ground, is that it has silenced many pro-American forces in the Muslim world.
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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.
