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" People ask me, 'Have you ever considered doing stand-up?' To me it would be less offensive if someone asked me, 'Have you ever considered dental implants?' "
David Sedaris
Doing
Ask
You
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" It's odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party, certain it will stick in your mind forever. You'll have a nice time, then two years later you'll be like, 'There was a pony there? Really? And a clown with one leg?' "
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" But I don't distinguish between being laughed with, and laughed at. I'll take either. "
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" I love 'Glee.' I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me feel like the writing is aware of itself, and that makes it okay to cry. "
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" They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgable in the fields of plumbing and electricity. "
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" I like listening to books as well, as that way you can iron at the same time. "
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" To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news. "
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" I've never gone on Facebook and am not sure I understand it. The same goes for Twitter. I have someone sending tweets and pretending to be me, but I don't know why. "
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" I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me feel like the writing is aware of itself, and that makes it OK to cry. "
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" Because I've always been a fairly nervous person. "
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" I always knew I wanted it to be illustrated. "
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" If I'm riding my bike I just replay the same scenarios over and over in my head, like I haven't had a new mental adventure since high school. So that's what I like about books on tape, so my mind can't wander anywhere. "
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Bike
" The only real advice you can give anyone is to keep writing. "
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Advice
You
Writing
" There are lots of things that happen to me that I don't write about. "
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Me
Lots
Things
" I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out. "
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Long
Change
Got
" I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself. Then it became part of my identity, and I did it without thinking. "
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" I don't have email. "
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Email
" The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons. "
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Next
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" No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try. "
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" I go to the movies at least five times a week, and after a while everything becomes a blur to me. "
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Movies
Go
Everything
" Actually I liked that 'Let the Right One In,' that Swedish vampire movie. "
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Swedish
Right
Movie
" But most good movies have a gun in them. "
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Them
Movies
" My sister Tiffany told me years ago, 'You can never write about me.' Then she called six months ago and said she wanted to be in a story. She was worried people thought I didn't like her. "
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You
Thought
Story
" Lovers of audio books learn to live with compromise. "
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Live
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" I love getting attention, just like a child loves it, and it's never worn off. So when people say, oh the book signings go on, why would I shoo away someone who's giving me attention? What part of standing in line for 10 hours to say how much they love you is bad to you? "
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Me
Book
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" I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives. "
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" Also, I used to think that one day I might get someone to iron my shirts, but the truth is I really like doing them myself. "
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