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"I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'"
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"On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles."
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"I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days."
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"I'm trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out, and the lawyers are diddling around with it and it probably won't be out until next year. I don't know."
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"I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books; I have had fans send me birthday cakes... sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage."
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"Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints."
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"With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me."
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"I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos."
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"I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind."
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"I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too."
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"My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish."
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"The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing."
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"I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose."
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"I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving."
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"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."
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"I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car."
Car
"My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant."
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"There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators."
Power
"I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything."
Thought
"I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side."
Future
"In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number."
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