James Garner Quotes
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I like to argue with the radio.
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I don't really understand what the public perception of me is. I think public perception and reality are two wholly different things.
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It had always been a dream of mine to come to New York to work. Coming to New York and looking for work is one thing, but coming to New York and already having a job and feeling like you are already part of the city has been an amazing experience for me.
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It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable.
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'Aladdin' was probably my favorite Disney animation when I was a kid. The animation was great and Robin Williams was unbelievable as the Genie. 'Aladdin' was an amazing adventure and the lead character was a hero for guys, which I loved. It wasn't a princess or a girl beating the odds; it was a street rat. That seemed really cool to me.
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I appreciate what I have a lot more than I did when I was younger.
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I love nature. I'm not going to do anything to detract from it.
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I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.
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I still have the desire to succeed, and I've always felt success is measured by what you've done in the win column, not top 10s.
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I have no sense of being famous - you're just working. And then you'll have a random day in London when you'll do some press and it creeps into your awareness that this goes out - that what you do every day goes out to televisions right across the country.
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What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt.
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Boxing gives you such a good workout, although I've stopped sparring. When your hand speed goes, you're going to get caught, and you can't afford to take cumulative smacks on the chops when you're a writer.
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Personally of course I regret everything. Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need, not a grief, not a joy, not a girl, not a boy, not a doubt, not a trust, not a scorn, not a lust, not a hope, not a fear, not a smile, not a tear, not a name, not a face, no time, no place, that I do not regret, exceedingly. An ordure, from beginning to end.
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Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.
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People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time - but even on the best day nobody's perfect.
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I really want to work with Chris Martin. I think he's a genius.
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I used to worry about being cool. Now I realize that I genuinely don't care.
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I believe I became one of the first singers to be launched via television exposure. I guess I was a new kind of musical stylist for a new kind of media.
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I am Jewish, but Beethoven is my religion.
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I wish that we had much more of the Spirit of Christ and a great deal less self, and less of human opinions. If we err, let it be on the side of mercy rather than on the side of condemnation and harsh dealing
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A loafer never works except when there's a fire; then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.
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When you work on something in an edit room with just a couple of other people, you never know how it is going to be received.
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An hour series is a killer. It's hard on you physically.
