"I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants."

-- Greg Egan

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“When you're a self-made man you start very early in life. In my case it was at nine years old when I started bringing income into the family. You get a drive that's a little different, maybe a little stronger, than somebody who inherited .”
“Yes, I would say my comedy is grunge, evidenced by the fact my jokes have put an end to big-hair glam comedy.”
“All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish.”
“Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.”
“For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.”
“In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.”
“The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.”
“Having bodyguards is just part of being famous, I think.”

Source : Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. August 15, 2012.

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