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David Sedaris
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 26
Comedian
Essayist
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Binghamton
New York
David Raymond Sedaris
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I tend to write things seven times before I show them to my editor. I write them seven times, then I take them on tour, read them like a dozen times on tour, then go back to the room and rewrite, read and rewrite... I would never show him a first draft, because then he's really going to be sick of it by the twelfth draft.
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I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.
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Hugh consoled me, saying, Don't let it get to you. There are plenty of things you're good at. When asked for some examples, he listed vacuuming and naming stuffed animals. He says he can probably come up with a few more, but he'll need some time to think.
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The rabbit of Easter. He bring of the chocolate.
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Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth.
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I've maintained old friendships, like with people I knew in the nineteen-seventies, but have lost the knack for meeting new people. This has a lot to do with my writing schedule. I don't want to be disturbed, and the willingness to be disturbed is, I think, part of being a good friend.
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All I do is lie, and that has made me immune to compliments.
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I meet people at book signings. My record now, for signing, is ten and a half hours in one sitting.
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In Japanese and Italian, the response to [How are you?] is I'm fine, and you? In German it's answered with a sigh and a slight pause, followed by Not so good.
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