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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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Conservative forces in the South have a lot of power - almost dynastic - dating back many years.
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Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.
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Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.
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Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.
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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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In death metal, a lot of guys are Eddie Van Halen disciples, but they take his style to really expressionistic places. It's a real pleasure for me to hear people pushing their craft.
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I just started writing stuff to kill time on summer evenings. This is why I'm always telling people who ask me what they need to do to succeed to give up, do something else.
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