Garry Shandling Quotes
I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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It was tough for him in that newsroom with Ted Baxter getting all the glory and this poor guy doing all the work. Murray worried so much he worried his hair off!
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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The climate at country radio is very, 'Let's keep it up-tempo,' probably best if you're a guy.
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The spiritual always did exist, always will. It is eternal, it is changeless.
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Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
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The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
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I grew up playing about 15 instruments and the way that I was able to accomplish that was by cutting my classes, hanging out in the band room all day, and going from one instrument to the next to the next, until I learned how to play everything by ear.
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I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.
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I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.
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In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
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The villains that I play, I always think that they are grounded, wonderful people with enormous intellects who are very exciting to spend an evening with. I never see them as bad people.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
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I tried to play sports, which was a disaster and probably one of the reasons I ended up being an actress.
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A friend told me about a Nike competition, where they give you one minute to do tricks with a basketball. I wasn't going to go, but they were giving away free sneakers. I ended up coming in second place.
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I either run or try to play basketball every day.
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As children, we all hold on to the myth of omnipotence. Comics are successful because kids identify with superheroes. They'll read a book or watch a TV programme and say, 'I'm that guy.' And that guy is always the one in control.
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Villains never know they are villains in a picture so I play this like I'm the nicest guy in the world.
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What I believe in touches many aspects of religious and spiritual thought. Mainly I'm influenced and inspired by the eastern yogi's aspect of mysticism, Which is, I think, the future.
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He's a hard-hat guy. He's extended his range on his jumper, which has helped his game tremendously.
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Now, that's the story from this week, and that's what I think we should focus on.
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John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.
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I have become very critical of the whole book award system and could preach on that subject for quite a while, but I do know what an award can mean to a writer early in her career. It can give an essential validation.
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I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.
