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If you're standing in the middle of a ring and you're playing the villain, and everyone is booing and throwing things at you, that's real.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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If my songs are being listened to between any other songs, that is awesome, and I'm glad people are getting something out of them.
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From a very young age, I was the kind of kid you can just put anywhere and I'd still find stuff to be stoked about.
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I don't really have any position to complain about my job. Yeah, every job has its moments like, Ah, you know, it's Wednesday. But I'm blessed. I love my work.
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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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The South actually has a very strong tradition of activism. The civil rights movement came from down here! It was black activists demanding that their voices be heard. People say these are red states. No they're not!
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I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.
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There are stylists I really love. I'm a huge Joan Didion fan - if I wrote something that she might like, then I'd feel very proud. I want the action to move as quickly as it does in A Book of Common Prayer, where one thing bonks right into another very quickly.
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