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David Sedaris

"When forced to leave my house for an extended period of time, I take my typewriter with me, and together we endure the wretchedness of passing through the X-ray scanner. The laptops roll merrily down the belt, while Iâ€™m instructed to stand aside and open my bag. To me it seems like a normal enough thing to be carrying, but the typewriterâ€™s declining popularity arouses suspicion and I wind up eliciting the sort of reaction one might expect when traveling with a cannon. Itâ€™s a typewriter,â€™ I say. â€˜You use it to write angry letters to airport security."

-- David Sedaris

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“Only an extraordinary person can turn opportunity into reality.”
“There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough. I think I might be the first to admit that the sort of reticence which prevents a man from exploiting his own personality is really an inverted sort of egotism.”
“HONY is one of the only things keeping people from getting lost in the matrix.”

Source : Brandon Stanton (2015). “Humans of New York”, p.63, Pan Macmillan
“Steve Harmison was a big disappointment in South Africa, and I don't know the reason why, but he has to lift his game.”
“The willingness to trust others even when you know you may be taken advantage of is the cornerstone of becoming civilized.”
“Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain - the Messerschmitt 109 fighter plane for example, the Stuka dive bomber, the 88 millimeter artillery piece, which could be used both for antiaircraft purposes and also shelling on the ground. And American soldiers were the victims of these things in Spain, American volunteers. So this war was really a testing ground for Hitler. And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“You can't slow down intense people. They have to burn at their own rate.”

Source : "Beats Back Bigger Than Ever: An Interview With Gerald Nicosia". Interview with Jonah Raskin, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.
“I feel really comfortable when the camera is rolling. I feel less comfortable in the moments before and after, like, "Okay, where do I sit now?" I find the social aspect of being on a project ... it's just a lot. There are so many new people, and it's a lot of introducing the most charming, most engaging, funniest version of yourself to, essentially, a bunch of strangers you already know too many details about.”

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