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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.

John Darnielle

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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
Stills
Young
Still
Find
Stoked
Kind
Anywhere
Age
Stuff
Kids

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The moment where you know the thing you want is ridiculous and pompous and a terrible thing to want anyway. The direction in which you're headed is not the direction you want to go, yet you're going to head that way a while longer cause that's just the kind of person you are.
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