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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.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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I'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.
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May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.
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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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Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.
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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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There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.
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I start writing, pull whatever images happen to occur to me and make up a story, instead of starting with details that are real and I know of and going from there.
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I suspect by the time the Beatles were writing the White Album, they didn't go, 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand!' I wanna play that! It's like if somebody asked you to put on the clothes you wore in high school. Well, no. No!
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My son, who sees me almost every day of his life, will look at me and go, I know that dude! I like that dude! It's incredibly affirming.
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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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I think it's a misconception that metal's about anger, obviously.
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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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People say friends don't destroy one another. What do they know about friends?
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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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