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The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
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Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
Kids
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You can get into anything if you are determined. I always thought that with music, too.
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A novel is a performance you have to plan.
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The possibility of disaster remains horrific to me. Like when you know everything's about to go wrong in a way that's not controllable or knowable.
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Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.
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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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There's this idea that there was a point in our childhood when we were in some way better than we are now and we should try to hang on to that.
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I think I read too much Arthur Conan Doyle when I was young, and got this idea that a gentleman should know a lot about one thing and plenty about most everything else.
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I make up stories that take place in real space with real people. If I could convert this into a technique for experimental novels, I might really be onto something.
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I'm sort of a cavedweller: I miss my house, my yard, my kitchen, my wife. The trees. When I get home, I like to get down into my office neighborhood as soon as I can.
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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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There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.
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Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.
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Giving up and doing something else (nursing, for me) was exactly what eventually led me to making music that other people wanted to hear.
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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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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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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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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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One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.
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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.
John Darnielle
This is the funny thing about me. People think John just comes up with all the ideas. I'm honored. People think I have a big old brain, but actually I am the sum of the people I work with.
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