James Garner Quotes
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I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.
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If you happen to start a new country in the 1990s, you have the advantage of drafting new laws with the knowledge that the Internet is out there.
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Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.
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Before I had Toma, I was one of those people who had no interest in other people's kids. I was. 'Don't hand me that baby!'
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My family understands the pain of struggling with a loved one who's suffering from a blood-related cancer, and we seek to support those who are working to find a cure.
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We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free.
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Well, to take me from where I was, and the life I was leading, to the life I lead now with the church and with the Lord and with Jesus Christ, it's a total, total turn–around.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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My grandparents on my father's side came to this country from the Caribbean with a strong connection to Africa and no shame about it.
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And preserving our open spaces or having them there for recreational purposes is one of the things that contributes to the high level of quality of life that we offer in Pennsylvania, and that also translates into economic benefits.
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When I'm upset, everyone knows about it, and it's a selfish trait because everyone suffers.
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I was raised Jewish and fully embrace the core beliefs of Judaism - the ones that I identify as core beliefs, which are essentially freedom and justice. But the supernatural aspects of religion were never important to me.
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The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.
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The professor must be an obscurantist or he is nothing; he has a special and unmatchable talent for dullness, his central aim is not to expose the truth clearly, but to exhibit his profundity, his esotericity - in brief to stagger sophomores and other professors.
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The newspaper is in all its literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct.
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The people in my songs are all me.
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We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit around it.
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Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.
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I was just shitty, shitty, shitty with money and I finally, when I really started making money, I had to get somebody to sit down with me and learn how to manage my money.
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I'm suspicious of places that look decorated. I can understand why people do it, but you see too many cushions or a piece of fabric hanging and it's, like, 'Ugh!' A good house with good art will always work, no matter what.
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I have very little hope that any permission can be gained for your organization. However, I shall place it in a special folder with similar applications and raise the question from time to time with such people here as may have authority.
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I never wanted to be an actor. I got stuck in it and kind of liked what I was doing.
