Lane Garrison Quotes
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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When you're an artist, you're expected to describe yourself in interviews every day in five words.
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When I wrote 'The West Wing,' the juice behind it was that in popular culture, our leaders in government are generally portrayed as Machiavellian, or as idiots. I thought, well, how about writing about a group of hyper-competent people?
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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If you want to lead, you better love people. Even if you don't like them, you have to love them enough to tell them the truth.
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
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I have never spoken to Eminem. I've never even spoken to him once.
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I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'
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I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.
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I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.
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I have had wrinkles on my forehead and my smile line since I was a kid. I see them in my own kids. I know what they're going to look like. So it's kind of like that's my personality. I feel the older you get, too, the more confident you become just in your own skin.
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A successful marriage is a decision. You decide it's going to work. You can't always be there, but you have to be there enough. And you have to make sure you are where you're needed most.
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The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.
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Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers.
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Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.
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I am proud of what I have got and I need an audience.
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I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.
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There is an urgent need for the Central government to take the lead in ensuring health and nutrition service delivery.
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I believe every era has its significance and the same holds true for players and coaches.
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I don't care if the audience is 600 Saul Bellows; I'm going to knock them dead with a comedy routine. I'm out there as a missionary for literature because, if people laugh and enjoy themselves, they might actually do something as bizarre as reading the book.
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Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband.
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The vast majority of Malaysians are sensible people; they're moderates, they want peace, they want harmonious race relations at home. They look for national unity.
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In the end, crime doesn't pay.
