John Darnielle Quotes

You want the song to be at least at the same level of goodness throughout. Whereas with something you're doing live, a song dips and rises and that can actually be worked to the song's benefit.

John Darnielle

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I tend not to spend a lot of time looking in the rearview mirror. If you say, 'Oh, I did 'Hill Street Blues' or 'L.A. Law' and everything I do has to measure up to some preconceived notion of that,' it would paralyze you.

Steven Bochco

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My brain cells are dying in their trillions.

Tom Stoppard

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I'm a big fan of Lou Reed, and I do a lot of talking through songs. It's more effective with my vocal limitations and also more powerful to slightly sing sometimes. It depends on the emotion, but I'm never going to try to compete with great singers.

Mary Gauthier

GreatTalkingPowerfulSometimesTry

Whenever I speak at a conference, I try to catch a few of the other presentations. I tend to stand in the back and listen, observe, and get a general sense of the room.

Jason Fried

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I was nice and well-mannered because I was taught manners. I was very imaginative and quite adventurous. I was a tomboy, and I was always jealous that my older brother Hugh had bigger toy aeroplanes than me. I was always playing with boys' toys; I don't remember owning any dolls.

Diana Rigg

BrotherMeJealousRememberNice

I grew up loving actresses or actors who were very classy but who seemed a little bit mysterious because you couldn't grasp what they're really thinking. I mean, Grace Kelly always looked impossibly glamorous, yet you could always see there was something behind her eyes.

Diane Kruger

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I've managed to do movies and still keep a lifestyle where I can go to ballgames, go to a grocery store like everybody else.

Chris Evans

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Mythology does not interest me. Nor does history. But the possible overlap between history and mythology excites me immensely.

Ashwin Sanghi

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Working from home or going on maternity leave is no excuse to let go of your look. The more you schlep around in drawstring pants and tees, the less you're going to be able to pull yourself together when necessary.

Nina Garcia

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I'm a huge Star Wars fan. I lost my Darth Vader watch.

Rhona Mitra

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Personality is reduced and deformed with depleted thoughts and stagnant mind.

Hussein of Jordan

PersonalityMindThoughtsStagnant

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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