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There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.

John Darnielle

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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
Starved
Fierce
Ideas
Firsts
First
Something

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I don't celebrate milestones and I don't do anniversary editions. It's not my style to reflect on accomplishments.
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It makes me envious of anybody who can say truly that they don't care what anybody thinks of what they do, because I care a lot about the people who like my stuff.
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