Garrison Keillor Quotes
If the government can round up someone and never be required to explain why, then it's no longer the United States of America as you and I always understood it. Our enemies have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. They have made us become like them.
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
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I eat two breakfasts, two lunches, and two dinners throughout the day. It's always eating.
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I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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E-governance is easy governance, effective governance, and also economic governance. E-governance paves the way for good governance.
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I want to let fans know how much I appreciate them and how much I appreciate them showing interest in our music and me personally.
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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
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There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
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Audiences are so much more sophisticated than they've ever been. They expect a lot more. I don't think because it's an hour of your Thursday night rather than an hour and a half of your weekend that you should be gypped at all in quality.
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You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified.
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L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
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I think it's great to grow up in a small town because you're just dying to break loose.
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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
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I never bought the idea of individual genius from which the novel spews forth. It's always an act of curation.
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Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease.
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Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.
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If the government can round up someone and never be required to explain why, then it's no longer the United States of America as you and I always understood it. Our enemies have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. They have made us become like them.
