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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And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have.
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My book in a nutshell is about the deleterious effects of patriarchy down through the ages for women and for men and how the Bible dismantles this fallen social system. I'm completely persuaded that patriarchy is not the Bible's message, but that it runs counter to God's vision for humanity. It produces tension and disunity between men and women that run contrary to God's vision for his world.
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Sometimes a movie encapsulates a period or a moment in all of our lives in such a way that it never dies.
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It is the way to educate your eye and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop.
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A dark object seen against a bright background will appear smaller than it is. A light object will look larger when it is seen against a background darker than itself.
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Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.
