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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.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.
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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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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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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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I'm not really a goal-oriented guy. I started doing the Mountain Goats just for the sheer hell of it.
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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 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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When all my friends insisted that they were feeling jaded, it struck me as an affected pose. To me, everything is always new.
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People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.
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You learn to present dark things without including their ability to harm, treasuring them for what they are.
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Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something. I believe in mental health care, but when we call people crazy, we exclude them from our circle.
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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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May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.
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In death metal, a lot of guys are Eddie Van Halen disciples, but they take his style to really expressionistic places. It's a real pleasure for me to hear people pushing their craft.
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The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.
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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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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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One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.
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