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I mean, I hate to gloat, but I'm extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.
~ Al Yankovic
Extremely
Hate
Life
Me
Mean
Out
Position
Satisfied
Things
Way
Worked
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I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, 'OK, this is what I'm going to do for a living and I'm going to be Weird Al.'
~ Al Yankovic
Al
Bathroom
Fantasies
Going
Had
Living
Mirror
Never
OK
Really
Rock
Rock Star
Said
Singing
Star
Suppose
Weird
While
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I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
~ Al Yankovic
Call
Culture
Gotten
Hip
I Think
More
Nerds
Only
Them
Think
Want
You
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I was a huge fan of 'Mad' magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I'd scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I'd wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.
~ Al Yankovic
Around
Back
Bookstores
Come
Fan
Find
Huge
Huge Fan
Issue
Issues
Life
Mad
Magazine
My Life
New
Old
Out
Trying
Used
Wait
Years
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I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
~ Al Yankovic
Amusing
Anecdotes
Arrange
Down
Edit
Full
Help
I Think
I Write
Ideas
Notebook
Parts
Points
Story
Storyline
Tell
Them
Then
Think
Try
Way
Would
Write
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I'm obviously not a rapper, and I don't have any claims to be one, really.
~ Al Yankovic
Any
Claims
Obviously
Rapper
Really
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I'm very analytical, I'm very precise.
~ Al Yankovic
Analytical
Precise
Very
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I'm watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
~ Al Yankovic
Charts
Every
Head
Hoping
Pop
Something
Watching
Week
Will
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I've done a movie and a TV series, and someday I'd like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
~ Al Yankovic
Be Nice
Done
Like
Movie
Nice
Series
Someday
Successful
TV
TV Series
Would
Would-Be
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I've learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
~ Al Yankovic
Effectively
Filter
How
Learned
Pretty
Spam
Use
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If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I'd love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.
~ Al Yankovic
Another
Could
Find
Get
Hard
If I Could
Involved
Just
Kind
Love
Motivated
Movie
Now
Property
Right
Right Kind
Screenplay
Tied
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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
~ Al Yankovic
Enough
Good
Out
People
See
Something
Will
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In the '80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear - that if I didn't, people would soon forget about me.
~ Al Yankovic
About
Album
Based
Every
Fear
Forget
I Think
Me
Mostly
Out
People
Putting
Soon
Think
Virtually
Would
Year
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It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I've ever done, so it's a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.
~ Al Yankovic
Album
Also
Becomes
Best
Bit
Done
Down
Ever
Every
Goes
Important
Kind
Lot
Make
Me
More
Pressure
Thing
Time
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It's hard to force creativity and humor.
~ Al Yankovic
Creativity
Force
Hard
Humor
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It's hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
~ Al Yankovic
Another
Articulate
Come
Enough
Go
Go For It
Good
Hard
I Can
Idea
Make
Move
Move On
Parameters
Really
Song
Then
Up
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Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you'll be watching TV, and it'll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you'll actually find yourself thinking, 'I don't want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to 'The Flintstones?'
~ Al Yankovic
About
Actually
Being
Event
Find
Had
Happened
Hear
I Think
Interrupted
Like
Moments
Most
People
Some
Think
Thinking
Tragic
Train
TV
Want
Watching
Watching Tv
Where
Which
You
Yourself
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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
~ Al Yankovic
Became
Gradually
Hobbies
Just
Sort
Vocation
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My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
~ Al Yankovic
Decisions
Enter
Lot
Make
Parody
Personal
Taste
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One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy.
~ Al Yankovic
Band
Because
Behind
Comedy
Craft
Frank
Frank Zappa
Get
Groups
Had
Humor
Lot
Overlooked
People
Pet
Problem
Realize
Same
Sometimes
Talents
Use
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BirthDate
23 October, 1959
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