Weird Al Yankovic (Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic) Quotes
My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I was younger, but unfortunately I had to face the fact that I was not really talented!
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Working with Mario Testino was a joy. He's very young spirited, and it's always lovely and a pleasure to spend time talking to him about all different things.
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The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.
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One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.
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The story of a passionate woman in a stale marriage is as old as Helen of Troy.
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I don't aim for perfection. But I do want to try and come up with something interesting.
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There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are.
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Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
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My ego is really good. I don't need to watch myself on TV, like some others.
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One of the things people don't really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they're celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.
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The East Turkestan Islamic Movement, named for an old Uighur name for Xinjiang, is a shadowy group that operates largely out of Afghanistan and Pakistan and is devoted to expelling the Chinese Communist Party from northwestern China.
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Everything I do, I'm sort of half in, half out.
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Quantum fiction is any story that witnesses life and the human experience on a subatomic level.
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Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth
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'When one deals with the Murthe, the unthinkable becomes the ordinary, and Zanzel's repute carries no more weight than last year's mouse-dropping - if that much.'
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of Spode He was, as I had already been able to perceive, a breath-taking cove. About seven feet in height, and swathed in a plaid ulster which made him look about six feet across, he caught the eye and arrested it. It was as if Nature had intended to make a gorilla and had changed its mind at the last moment.
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Il est dans la nature humaine de penser sagement et d'agir d'une façon absurde.
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When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.'
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Being in front of all these people staring at you and it helps you to dig down and become more emotional and get lost in it as you're feeding on people's energy.
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If you criticize others, they don't dare to hurt you. If you are perfect, nobody can criticize you.
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My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
