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- Nov 07, 2020
Weird Quotes
On the oddities of fame, memory, and everyday life.
Writing lyrics for someone else's experience, navigating a strange publicity machine, and remembering a stiff, sandpaper-uniformed elementary school - these quotes treat 'weird' as an honest, sometimes uncomfortable observation. Feel shares that candid tone.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate the natural sound of the trumpet, but I think I'm naturally set up to be a trumpet player. I know that sounds weird. But pretty much anytime I play a note, I'm uncomfortable in a general sense.
- Orange
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm weird about fruity desserts like lemony, acidic, zesty... I don't like lemon things and orange things, really.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know when I was little, having my Thai mom, even I was weird about fish sauce and fish heads and clams. I kind of sided with my dad because he was a big American guy. So, we were very meat and potatoes, but I really wish I had grown up appreciating my mom's taste a bit more.
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are so phobic and crazed about this word 'commitment.' It's weird. Everyone has taken this word to a new height of morality.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have some weird habits. For instance, I love beets. Show me a salad bar and I will clean them out of their beets.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Getting the chance at 40 to make up stories that other people would draw and other people would then read is pretty weird.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My biggest fear was public speaking, and then having everyone know who I was, it was definitely weird at first. When I first won, it was definitely a culture shock, it was something I wasn't quite ready for.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just really remember the feeling of being a younger comedian who was kind of an outlier for being experimental and weird and how that could feel lonely or hopeless.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The weird thing for me is I'm sitting there in the '80s writing about the Mutant Control Act and here we are in the second decade of the 21st century with the Patriot Act, listening to presidential candidates talk about building walls to keep people out: who's acceptable and who isn't. It's very creepy.
- Carol
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember watching 'The Carol Burnett Show' with my parents as a kid. All those weird outfits she wore, like turtlenecks and long skirts, really stayed in my head.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can do contortionist things; it's really weird. But I can freak people out, which is great!
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- Nov 07, 2020