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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I've definitely had my moments in relationships where I've been able to say yes, I have been heartbroken, my heart has been broken.
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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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Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleasure. And it's a job - which is weird, because I don't think of it as a job.
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If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others. Ideologues don't feel the pain of others because they haven't imaginatively got under their skins.
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3D is not a fire and forget tool. It takes a lot of very careful consideration and it will change your approach to where you put the camera so 3D isn't for everybody.
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My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
