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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.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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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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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 seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.
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It makes me envious of anybody who can say truly that they don't care what anybody thinks of what they do, because I care a lot about the people who like my stuff.
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I couldn't name more than a couple of good drum'n'bass acts, and I have no idea what's big in the dance world right now.
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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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While writing is a mystical process, it's also work. If you show up to work five days in a row, nobody's going to pat you on the back - everyone does that. Well, do that with your writing. Just show up. Be there for it. When you get an idea, write it down somewhere and then be a steward of that idea.
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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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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.
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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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The fact that somebody's telling you a story about people who didn't exist doesn't make the experience of the story any less real in your heart and mind.
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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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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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Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.
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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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