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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.


John Darnielle

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JOHN LOCKE In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community...
JOHN THORN I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to ...
JOHN BARROWMAN You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part.
JOHN MCENROE Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depress...
JOHN MELLENCAMP A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
JOHN LUBBOCK So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying ...
JOHN WILLIAMS Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.
JOHN LYDON There's rock n' roll in hip-hop, there's rock n' roll in pop music, there's rock...
JOHN VARVATOS Get off your horse and drink your milk.
JOHN WAYNE The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.
JOHN MCAFEE I can never consent to being dictated to.
JOHN TYLER There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles!
JOHN HANCOCK When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regim...
JOHN BOLTON Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd...
JOHN BOLTON You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what yo...
JOHN BOLTON Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.
JOHN BOLTON Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the tw...
JOHN BOLTON I'm a conservative Republican. I have been since I was 15 years old and participated in the '...
JOHN BOLTON People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on ...
JOHN BOLTON There's no religious test under the constitution. That's what it says. Period.
JOHN BOLTON North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons.
JOHN BOLTON I think that, especially among conservatives, there's a clear understanding that there are three...
JOHN BOLTON A lot of people have said to me, 'That's a great idea, running for president. You'll get...
JOHN BOLTON The U.N. is one of many competitors in a marketplace of global problem solving.
JOHN BOLTON I don't do carrots.
JOHN BOLTON My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that sma...
JOHN BOLTON Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.
JOHN BOLTON Reform is not a one-night stand.
JOHN BOLTON