Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Al Yankovic Quotes

When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.

Al Yankovic

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: October 23, 1959

Topics

Best Me Thought Career Choice Kid

I plot the first 5 or 6 chapters quite minutely, and also the end. So I know where I am going but not how I'm going to get there, which gives characters the chance to develop organically, as happens in real life as you get to know a person.

Joanna Trollope

Life I Am Chance End You Person

Once you do something violent in a film, you don't have to do too much. You do it once and the feeling of violence just stays there, do you know what I'm saying?

Andrew Dominik

Saying Violence You Too Much Know

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Sex Human Capable Endeavor Without

I'd be a bad father. I'm too self-involved.

John Waters

Father Bad Too

I watched television a little, but I mostly just drew and read magazines.

Stephen Sprouse

Television Little Just Read Watched

I just want to be a good storyteller.

Sia

Good Want Just Storyteller

I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18.

Roy Harper

Jazz Modern Got Between Then Ages

Charles Pierce, Bea Arthur, and I were like a terrible little trio.

Millicent Martin

Little Trio Terrible Like Pierce

We're making it more difficult to obtain the necessary ingredients to produce meth and tightening criminal penalties for those who deal in this dangerous drug.

Michael McCaul

Dangerous More Difficult Ingredients

I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear, living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life, tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance.

Moby

Life Fear Think Living Narcissism

None of us, in our culture of comfort, know how to prepare ourselves for dying, but that's what we should do every day. Every single day, we die a thousand deaths.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Culture Day Death Die Every Day

I'm a pack rat, like most people.

Donald Baechler

People Rat Like Most Pack