James Garner Quotes
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One of the reasons I am successful as a producer is that I've been a very successful housewife.
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I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
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Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
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I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'
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I'm very good friends with my former coaches. We speak on the phone a lot.
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Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have certainly confronted a fair number of sticky issues around how to measure, and even define, happiness.
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I don't want my work to be heavy. The challenge is to make it interesting and engaging, keeping in mind the need for method acting. This is what I have learnt from Bharat Muni's 'Natya Shastra' and from the Russian theatre legend Stanislavsky.
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Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.
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I have an American top hat that's collapsible and works as a frisbee.
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Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.
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No man can add one dollar to his bank account by worrying.
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My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.
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What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public.
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Tell me, George, if you had it to do all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?
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You should continue carrying your arms, ready to sacrifice your lives in defence against these belligerent attacks
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A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain't got nothin'.
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Certainly, my father would not want to see me destroy myself in this business, as so many people in our family have been destroyed. I try to take good care of myself, but we are fighting the good fight, and the truth is powerful.
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Not only in peasant homes, but also in city skyscrapers, there lives alongside the twentieth century, the thirteenth. A hundred million people use electricity and still believe in the magic powers of signs and exorcisms . . . movie stars to mediums. Aviators who pilot miraculous mechanisms created by man's genius wear amulets on their sweaters. What inexhaustible reserves they possess of darkness, ignorance and savagery!
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All men are good when free from passion, interest, or error.
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I'm an actor; I hire out.
