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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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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Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
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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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I love being Southern because of the people and the fans we have. People down here are more friendly - really warm people.
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I had a mother who was very emotionally demanding, wanting to be the centre of attention. As they say in EastEnders, she thought it was all about 'er. I spent a lot of time trying to work out what was going on.
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My mom would take me to restaurants, and the first thing I'd ask for would be a pen and a napkin, and I'd sketch shoes and shoes and shoes.
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As a political artist, I think you have to learn how to create art, no matter what your ideology is.
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I would love to date a chef. I'd probably get really fat, but I don't care.
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Sometimes you're encouraged, and other times disappointed. It's a matter of going in and precluding all that with, 'This is what I do, not who I am.' I need to be who I am in the process of doing what I do. I need to stay true to what it is I'm really here for. And that's the hardest thing, the biggest challenge.
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It doesn't matter how many times you win an award, it is always very special.
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I already have a production company called J Squared and we're working on two projects.
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The internet has opened the door for millions of businesses to do things differently, because there are other assets now, assets that can transcend location. Your permission to talk to customers, your reputation, your unique products-you can build a business around them online.
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My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
