James Garner Quotes
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I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.
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Success should stem from entrepreneurial creativity, not political connectivity.
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There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast.
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You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children.
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I think I'm a nervous laugher. Like, when you're in a situation that you don't know what's going on, you go to laughter more than anything.
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I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
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If you have your eye set on somebody, don't beat around the bush.
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Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.
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Utah is no longer considered a flyover state.
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God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.
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I'm definitely not satisfied about my career. I don't know how you can be, it's the very nature of things.
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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
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The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The opposite or pessimistic spirit drags men down and away from God, looks on the dark side, murmurs, complains, and is slow to yield obedience.
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Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s.
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Not a lot of the country format I enjoy listening to.
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Just as you go to the gym regularly to keep your body fit, regular couples counseling can keep your relationship fit as well.
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It comes down to what your priorities are, and if public education is about kids, then every decision we make should be focused on the question of 'Is this good for a child?' And that should be the driving focus and the priority when we decide what our policies should be and what our laws should be.
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When I got on stage, I felt this bolt of electricity hit me, and it was this shock of, 'This is exactly what I'm supposed to do with my life.'
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Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.
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Every separate sector of artistic creation has its own basic rules . . . data which govern it. They are contained in the textbooks on these subjects. A professional knows the rules of the game as a matter of course so that he can achieve, in the upper strata above that, a high quality of art.
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Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.
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It's my experience at Fiat and, now, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles that when there is a very strong CEO, it's a good thing to be chairman.
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When I'm pushed, I shove.
