Garry Shandling Quotes
To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.
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I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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My eye is ever on those who love me.
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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I love to get home and hang out with my family. My brothers and I love spending time at the beach. I enjoy doing all kinds of surf sports and keeping healthy.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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I'm really interested in playing my age.
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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On many accounts, Cornwall may be regarded as one of the most interesting counties of England, whether we regard it for its coast scenery, its products, or its antiquities.
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I've been interested in the idea of forgiveness and the necessity of it. I think of it as the most critical piece of any relationship, whether that be business, or romantic, or familial. We fail each other. We make mistakes. If we contract to go on after those mistakes, forgiveness is involved. Forgiveness is required.
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I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the world. Ten pages in, I've already blown it, limited it, made it less, marred it. That's very discouraging. I hate the book at that point.
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Saving a life overrides territories.
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I think musicians are always very generous in promoting anything good they hear. It's just kind of in our nature.
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The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.
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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
