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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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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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 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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We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people's power, to construct a new society without exploitation, for the benefit of all those who feel themselves to be Mozambicans.
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After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.
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That's why teenagers fascinate me – they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.
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I am one of the lucky people in the world: I found something I always wanted to do, and I have enjoyed every single minute of it.
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To let go of judgment does not mean that you don’t see what they do. It means that you recognize their behavior as a form of conditioning, and you see it and accept it as that. You don’t construct an identity out of it for that person.That liberates you as well as the other person from identification with conditioning, with form, with mind.
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I was about to walk on stage at the Kansas Speedway - I was playing a NASCAR race - and I said to Scooter Carusoe, who was standing side stage, 'I want to write a song called 'Wanna Be That Song.' Then I put my earphones back in and walked right out on stage.
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The Mercedes-Benz Fashion Force car is a statement about New York being one of the greatest fashion capitals of the world and the confident approach to individualistic style that people strive to explore throughout this amazing city.
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I can always, quite easily, put myself in other people's shoes, so to speak, and look at the world through them.
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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.
