Garet Garrett Quotes
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity to show all political leaders what life is like for most people.
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I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about lying. Because fiction is a form of deceit, and one's abilities are measured by how convincingly one can persuade readers that these events really happened.
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People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
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I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.
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I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
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Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
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Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
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I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.
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I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.
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The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.
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In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.
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My character in the first instalment of 'GOW' was very shy and reserved. It was completely different from 'Kahaani,' where I played a no-nonsense cop. And in the second instalment of 'GOW,' it is again very different.
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My years with Aretha Franklin have been very special, as were the years making records with Dionne Warwick. Other highlights include working with Janis Joplin, who was the first artist I ever signed, as well as Patti Smith and Alicia Keys.
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I know where my game is. I know I'm a power hitter and an RBI guy. I need to get on base for my teammates behind me and just stick with my game. I don't try to do too much. Sometimes when you try to do too much in this game you pretty much can't do anything. And that's pretty much my mentality.
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It's very important that we don't make the same mistakes twice. That's a big part of improvement.
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Business is in itself a power.
