Essay, "Repeat after me" - p.147, 155
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Sometimes when you're stoned it's fun to sit around and think of who might play you in the movie version of your life. What makes it fun is that no one is actually going to make a movie of your life.
I'd worried that, in making the movie, the director might get me and my family wrong, but now a worse thought occurred to me: What if he got us right?
— David Sedaris
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Sometimes when you're stoned it's fun to sit around and think of who might play you in the movie version of your life. What makes it fun is that no one is actually going to make a movie of your life.
I'd worried that, in making the movie, the director might get me and my family wrong, but now a worse thought occurred to me: What if he got us right?" in the context of "Essay, "Repeat after me" - p.147, 155" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "David Sedaris" (Quotes, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004))
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About David Sedaris
David Raymond Sedaris (born December 26, 1956) is an American humorist, comedian, author, and radio contributor.
About David Sedaris
David Raymond Sedaris (born December 26, 1956) is an American humorist, comedian, author, and radio contributor.
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