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"I keep saying the word "weird" over and over again, but it's the only way I can describe it."
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"I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn't like to bring that up to Mitch."
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"Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars."
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"Well, as I was saying... everyone's so nice to me, usually."
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"You cannot have your cake and eat it."
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"Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just."
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"Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial."
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"Everyone has highs and lows that they have to learn from, but every morning I start off with a good head on my shoulders, saying to myself, 'It's going to be a good day!'."
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"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
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"There's a saying among prospectors: 'Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find.'"
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"If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done."
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"I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable. Really the only thing it's based on is whether it's good or not. No book editor, in my experience, is getting a manuscript and try to rewrite it."
Experience
"The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself."
Fun
"The biggest hurdle to writing Fargo Rock City was that I couldn't afford a home computer - I had to get a new job so I could buy a computer. It could all change though. In five years, I could be back at some daily newspaper, which wouldn't be so bad."
Change
"It's just that what's important there is different there than what's important is here. Here, people care that you wrote a book or that you work in the media."
Work
"The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a prism."
Writing
"Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite."
Writing
"I keep saying the word "weird" over and over again, but it's the only way I can describe it."
Saying
"You're trying to find new ideas in people. I always think to myself, what question I am least comfortable asking the person? And then I make sure I ask it early in the interview."
People
"I also did an Ozzy piece for him, and so I got hired. Everything happened really fast. I can't give people advice, because everything in my life changed completely in less than a year and it's still not something I am used to."
Life
"A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end of the interview because they think the person is going to walk out. But what they have to realize is, is that if the person walks out, they have a pretty successful story."
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