Garrison Keillor Quotes
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I'm actually so low maintenance when it comes to my hair. It's naturally stick-straight, but I do like to use a curling iron to give my locks some life.
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The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.
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It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
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People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.
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I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'
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My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
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A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
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People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.
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I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves. Then you can edit or mess around with what they've come up with. But you have to allow the artist that space.
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Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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When you're recording, if you're not really clean in your playing, it sounds like a mess.
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I've always been worried about the band but I've got to the point now where I think it's time to start thinking about myself a bit more.
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We pretend that the debate about genetically modified crops is a debate about science when the reality is, actually, that the science is very clear. It is really a debate about values.
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Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It's just not a good way to think. It's non-thinking. It's stupid and destructive.
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The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself, and die singing. At the very instant the thorn enters there is no awareness in it of the dying to come; it simply sings and sings until there is not the life left to utter another note. But we, when we put the thorns in our breasts, we know. We understand. And still we do it. Still we do it.
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Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.
