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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My dream job has already happened.
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What shall befall me in the pursuance of this work, I refer to the disposal of Almighty God, whose glory is dearer to me, not only than my liberty, but than my life.
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Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.
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Integrity is hard work. I do think the internet makes it harder because of the temptations of performance. You can perform and have integrity, but it's easier just to perform. So the temptations of social media lead to some dissonance.
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Abandon cleverness, discard profit, and thieves and robbers will disappear.
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I'm an actor; I hire out.
