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A novel is a performance you have to plan.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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Indiana
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Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.
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When I was a kid, I was a big science fiction fan, but current horror books were harder to get your hands on.
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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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I'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.
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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 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 don't really have any position to complain about my job. Yeah, every job has its moments like, Ah, you know, it's Wednesday. But I'm blessed. I love my work.
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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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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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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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My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.
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I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.
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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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Human beings are selfish by nature. Everything that happens to a child, you immediately grab your own child and say, I will never let that happen to you.
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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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There's this idea that there was a point in our childhood when we were in some way better than we are now and we should try to hang on to that.
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For me, moving is always a big opportunity. Its just a enough of a shift in outlook that every time I move, it seems to open something up.
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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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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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You can get into anything if you are determined. I always thought that with music, too.
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