Weird Al Yankovic (Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic) Quotes
One of the hardest things I've had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.
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I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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If I'm going to change, my life and experiences should change me for the wiser and more profound.
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.
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I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.
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There is nothing in my work that can be taken as blasphemy.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
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I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.
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We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.
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I think that if you're improvising on TV, it's a great way to help the dialogue between actors and writers.
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Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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Forget goals. Value the process.
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You don't play villains like they are villains. You play them like you know exactly where they are coming from. Which hopefully you do.
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The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none.
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One of the hardest things I've had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.
