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The only people who are afraid of file sharing are the people whose albums are so dull presentation-wise that nobody cares about owning the actual finished product, and the people who have so little connection to their listeners that said listeners have no reason to care whether the artists they like are getting reimbursed for their efforts.

John Darnielle

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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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This is why people cry at the movies: because everybody’s doomed. No one in a movie can help themselves in any way. Their fate has already staked its claim on them from the moment they appear onscreen.
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Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I dont feel everybody can connect to.
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Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.
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A novel is a performance you have to plan.
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My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.
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I consider myself a lyricist first and foremost, but if you get something else out of what I do, that's fine too. I'm not sitting back here telling people how they have to take my stuff. We just want to play music, and hope that people like it.
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The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.
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I get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun.
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Anything that is within you is a gift. To be able to take possession of that and say, Whatever it is, I am bigger than it, is to learn to cherish even the hard and painful things.
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It's hard always to say what it is one likes about a place, for me. I feel it.
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I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.
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The fact that somebody's telling you a story about people who didn't exist doesn't make the experience of the story any less real in your heart and mind.
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Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.
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The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.
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Kayfabe is kind of a code. To break kayfabe is to let people know that the punch was not real and that the match was scripted.
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You learn to present dark things without including their ability to harm, treasuring them for what they are.
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You should avoid seeing too much of yourself anywhere: in the outside world, in others, in the imagined worlds that give you shelter.
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There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.
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