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John Darnielle Quotes

I write stuff down. I have a chalkboard in the kitchen where I will scrawl stuff down if I have a faint outline of an idea. And I'll go into my office or whatever. But that goes from format to format.

John Darnielle

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Kitchen Down Go Will Write Office

If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.

John Larroquette

Failure You Career Successful Your

Nihilism in American comedy came along way before 'The Simpsons.' There was a fairly nihilistic point of view to 'Saturday Night Live,' for instance, back in the beginning, and a lot of really dark comedy had a really anti-sentimental take on life.

Matt Groening

Life Live Beginning Night American

CTE can be caused by smaller hits to the head over time.

Ann McKee

Time Over Head Smaller Hits Caused

Being a son of the South puts you in a different position when it comes to the Confederate flag. It means something entirely different to the people who have ancestors who fought in the Civil War on the south side of the Mason-Dixon line.

Steve King

Son War People You Flag Ancestors

Music reaches people in a way that simple spoken words just can't.

Sonita Alizadeh

Music Simple Words People Way Just

People got to know me very gradually. It was little things. It's still like that. 'That Thing you Do!' was a big thing. It's always been very gradual. Like I say, people still ask me if I'm still acting. 'I've seen all your movies. What are you doing now?' Ha ha!

Steve Zahn

People Me Little Things Doing Acting

But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it's beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome.

Tony Blair

I Am Challenges World Defeated Will

I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do.

Martin Seligman

Positive Happiness Face Choose Human

Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is the Night,' an experimental novel.

Joyce Carol Oates

Best Night Thought Know Tender His

The risk of relying on a handful of customers is not just financial. Your product also is at risk when you're at the mercy of a few big spenders. When any one customer pays you significantly more than the others, your product inevitably ends up catering mostly to that customer's specific needs.

Jason Fried

Financial Customer You Mercy Others

As a professional athlete, the small print says there could be a trade at some point in your career. Sometimes expected, sometimes not. You have to be able to handle that.

Jason Kidd

Small You Career Professional Point

If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when compared to the rest of music in the world.

Don Ellis

Music World Rest Jazz Beginnings He