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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It's great to be able to do shows like 'Falling in Love with the Girl Next Door,' which I think is entirely too long of a title.
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After 'Click, Clack, Moo' was published, I was still practicing law and had no plans to make a career change.
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That’s what it means to be out of your mind. To let yourself be carried away by a dream. To give it room, let it grow wild and thick, until it overruns you.
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She had been the quiet, rather plain girl, with a surprisingly sharp tongue if she was put out, lovely eyes and pretty hair and a way of looking very directly at one. Now he had to admit that she had become more important to him than anyone else in the world. The idea of a future without her wasn't to be borne. She had by some mysterious metamorphosis become more beautiful than anyone else he had ever encountered.
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Our family are an alternate stratification of poetry and mathematics.
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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.
