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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.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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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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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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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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People say friends don't destroy one another. What do they know about friends?
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Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.
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I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality.
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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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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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Conservative forces in the South have a lot of power - almost dynastic - dating back many years.
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You can get into anything if you are determined. I always thought that with music, too.
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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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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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Every place on earth has a frequency. It's not good or bad, it's just the way it is, and if you can attune yourself to that frequency, then you can find comfort in that.
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There are real teachers out there I don't pretend to have their mantle.
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Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.
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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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I think it's a misconception that metal's about anger, obviously.
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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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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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