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There are real teachers out there I don't pretend to have their mantle.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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Bloomington
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I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice.
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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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My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.
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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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The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.
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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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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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It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.
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There are stylists I really love. I'm a huge Joan Didion fan - if I wrote something that she might like, then I'd feel very proud. I want the action to move as quickly as it does in A Book of Common Prayer, where one thing bonks right into another very quickly.
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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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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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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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It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.
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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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Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.
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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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You can get into anything if you are determined. I always thought that with music, too.
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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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Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.
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The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.
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