Garrison Keillor Quotes
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Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.
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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.
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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
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If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.
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One half who graduate from college never read another book.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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The very important thing you should have is patience.
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There is no reason to suppose that taste is in any way a lower sense than the other four; a fine palate is as much a gift as an eye that discerns beauty or an ear that appreciates and enjoys subtle harmonies of sound, and we are quite right to value the pleasures that all our senses give us and educate their perceptions.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.
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Love, and do what you like.
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I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular niche. But I know that I'd be bored unless I wrote a book that in some senses was a challenge.
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I tell them how what matters is becoming the best you can be at whatever you're doing.
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If you bet on Microsoft, you are not going to ask anymore, 'Hey, where is the innovation?' The challenge going forward is how do we keep up with it.
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When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.
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It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.
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I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music.
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I think without writing I would feel completely useless.
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I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.
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I think there's inherently an issue that models will literally never be able to handle, which is that when somebody comes along with a new way of doing something that's really excellent, the models will not recognize it. They only know how to recognize excellence when they can measure it somehow.
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What does Sullivan do? He points at people. Rub meat on actors and dogs will do the same thing.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
