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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.

Al Yankovic

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Al Yankovic
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 23
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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.
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I'll be mellow when I'm dead.
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Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don’t make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows. I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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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.
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I'm still a geek on the inside, that's the important thing.
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