Garrison Keillor Quotes
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
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There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
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Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.
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I like that Barack got that job.
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Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.
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I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'
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My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.
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I chose 'No. 1 Ladies' Detective,' or I'll say it chose me, and it was an absolute blessing, for the experience of being in Africa for seven months and learning so many different things, from languages to foods to greetings. On so many levels, it was an incredible experience.
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[Writing scripts] I'm not looking to jump in and make super mainstream movies. I still like to make movies that I like to see.
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The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
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I'm interested in playing old ladies because I am becoming one. And I want to become a very good one!
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Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.
