"The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese"
"I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after I was doing comedy. There was a paper called the 'Boston Phoenix,' and someone wrote a description of what I was doing and that's where I first saw 'deadpan.'"
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Source: Steven Wright Offers Pony Rides. Interview with Jon Chattman, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 26, 2009.
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