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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At heart, Pearson is in the intellectual property business, be it through publishing books or the 'Financial Times'.
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My buddy David Wells is a big motorcycle guy, so when I go visit him in San Diego, he takes me out on his bike. He's got some antique Indians. I never really rode during my career, because I was afraid I'd fall off and ruin my career.
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I'm not that much of a socialist compared to Eisenhower.
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Health is the first benefit. Content is the first fortune. Friendliness is the first kindness. Nirvana is the first happiness.
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I'm an actor; I hire out.
