Garrison Keillor Quotes
There is almost no marital problem that can't be helped enormously by taking off your clothes.
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People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.
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We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.
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Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not exercising it. Why? Because they haven't got the interest or the time, or they have just given up hope.
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The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.
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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
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You can learn more from a person just from their observations and how they see the world. More so than just talking.
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I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.
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I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.
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It's about very talented writers, directors, producers, and actors being in a position for their projects to be supported, but there's just not enough black projects being made.
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I'm very grateful to have had many brilliant students and post-docs who have worked with me. Potential is often hard to spot, but a key factor is whether they express a genuine interest in the problem and how they have thought about it.
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It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.
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If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I've tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself.
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Parent hard, play hard. That's my philosophy.
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Running through airports with pounds of luggage - that's a good workout.
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I don't go out, so I don't get attention from girls. They're not going to have posters of me on their walls. I just try to get on with my life.
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I grew up in a very religious household. My mom was a church organist. I was a religious kid.
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When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.
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There are going to be good days and bad days... and you have to learn to fight through that.
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Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can't get anywhere else.
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[Jean-Paul] Sartre was a throwback to the existential period. I'm not really so much into that these days. I went through a period of going over things and looking at them again to see what they were. But I'm into psychiatry type things. I'm into philosophy. I'm into that sort of thing.
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If that's the only thing that's stopping war then thank God for the bomb.
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Once I established myself doing crazy things and being extreme, people want to see it all the time.
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I have a slightly crap blog where I opine on anything that occurs to me and run the occasional silly competition.
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There is almost no marital problem that can't be helped enormously by taking off your clothes.
