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Beck

"In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means."

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"In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means."

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Donna Grant

"Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."

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Donna Grant

"Fun is never gone because life is fun."

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Donna Grant

"Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed."

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Donna Grant

"I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out."

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Donna Grant

"Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it."

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Donna Grant

"Working is hard and distracts from having fun."

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Donna Grant

"Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something."

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Donna Grant

"Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening."

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Donna Grant

"The Britney Spears movie was just fun and light, but let's talk about that in a few months."

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Donna Grant

"I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it."

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Beck
"I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record."

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Beck
"I didn't want to do something typical."

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Beck
"I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going to do that any more. For a couple years I thought I was done with that. It wasn't really required of me."

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Beck
"When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines."

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Beck
"The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things."

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Beck
"In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little speeches before you play gigs."

Play

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Beck
"Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way."

Life

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Beck
"The repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had that thing that maybe other bands have - a specific idea of what they are and what their sound is."

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Beck
"I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose."

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Beck
"If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?"

Experience

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