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It's hard always to say what it is one likes about a place, for me. I feel it.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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Bloomington
Indiana
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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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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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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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People say friends don't destroy one another. What do they know about friends?
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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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Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.
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In wrestling, people just throw each other around, possibly actually bleed, and are still friends in the locker room afterwards. But there's a real glee - a feeling goes up in the arena, especially on non-TV days. If it's just people in a room and somebody starts to bleed, that's very exciting.
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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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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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Conservative forces in the South have a lot of power - almost dynastic - dating back many years.
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There are real teachers out there I don't pretend to have their mantle.
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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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