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It's impossible to be content all the time - you have to learn to be content in places where you're unhappy and owning your emotions, whatever they are.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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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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People will complain that they don't want to wait around for lightning to strike, but why not? If you invest yourself in chance, the potential for disappointment is pretty low.
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My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.
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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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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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Over the past 40 years, the tradition of Southern progressivism has been somewhat successfully erased by right-wing revisionist historians.
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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.
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I think The Sunset Tree is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important.
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The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.
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I'm kind of a hermit. Left to my own devices, I won't submerge myself in anything further afield than the driveway.
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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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Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.
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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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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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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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Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.
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You always feel like your 18-year-old self in some sense. And that's what walking through New York on a June evening feels like - you feel like it's Friday and you're 17 years old.
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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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Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this or that record, but I'm nobody's authority.
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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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