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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The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
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I'm not one to go down that road to say I have some kind of social consciousness.
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I believe the person who was out conquering the world, who was out fighting in the world were our fathers, so to have them come... I adored my father more than anyone in the world, but my father had more advice on work policies and how to get a job and how to survive in the work environment than my mother because my mother never worked outside of the home. So I think the support of fathers is very important.
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There aren't always, especially in low-income communities, the arts and the dance and the drama and the things that can really show a kid, 'Look, even if I'm three years behind in math, there's something I'm good at that can help me be successful in life.'
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You may have heard that back in the States there are some people who are smoking grass. I don't know how you feel, but it's sure easier than cutting the stuff.
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My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
