American - Author | December 27, 1969 -
I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old.
Sarah Vowell
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I seem to have no problem revealing my crush on the man who murdered Lincoln.
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I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed.
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Jesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead.
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Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.
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Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death.
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My audience is going to die before I do.
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One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes.
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Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know.
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The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War - when I really think about them, they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.
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The one time I was an actor, it happened to be in a globally dominant juggernaut. That was lucky.
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The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try.
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