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John Darnielle Quotes

The best ones - Hulk Hogan believes in Hulkamania. It's not a thing he's selling here. It's real. He knows it's real because he goes to the Mall Of America and everybody goes insane, right? Wrestling is real. Those characters are real.

John Darnielle

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: March 16, 1967

Topics

Best America Selling Wrestling Right

Superheroes are modern mythological characters, so you're going to make them look impossible. Even my Krypto The Superdog is the idealisation of the canine form.

Jim Lee

Impossible You Look Modern Going

I think novels - or any art form - can have a powerful impact on people's perceptions of race, particularly if they draw attention to the absurd inconsistencies and stereotypes we all carry around with us and don't want to think about.

Jess Row

Art People Think Impact Powerful

My early windfall was a result of the excesses of the S&L era.

Jeff Greene

Result Early Era

I did feel that a part of my work was to empty myself out and let it move through me.

Michael C. Hall

Work Myself Me Feel Out Empty

Meeting everyone you wanted to know in the small surf industry, I saw how the surf trade was made up of characters that not only surfed, but were able to develop a business out of their relationship with their product and the ocean.

John Van Hamersveld

Business Relationship Ocean Small

When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.

Amelia Barr

Men Treat Make Just Like Themselves

What I look for in music is artistry, sincerity, and simplicity, and Tom Waits has all of that. I want to make a connection to the creator.

Steve Vai

Music Simplicity Connection Look Tom

You can't eat cake and lose weight.

Tom Perez

Cake You Lose Eat Weight

My mom was a single mother. She had six siblings in a big Irish family, all descended from shanty Irish folks who arrived after the Famine. They settled along the Cuyahoga River. It's the river that caught on fire. We're real good at picking real estate.

Rory O'Malley

Family Good Mother Fire River Mom

I love detail, like drawing what's on top of someone's coffee table. Maybe there's a little bowl of butterscotch candies on it, next to the four TV remotes.

Roz Chast

Love Coffee Detail Someone Drawing

When you want something so badly, you just do it. You don't think about how hard it's going to be.

Lisa Vidal

Think You Want Hard Just Do It Just

In limits, there is freedom. Creativity thrives within structure. Creating safe havens where our children are allowed to dream, play, make a mess and, yes, clean it up, we teach them respect for themselves and others.

Julia Cameron

Freedom Children Respect Creativity