Garry Marshall Quotes
I never got beaten up, because I was a wisecracking jokester. I could make a bully laugh before he delivered a punch.
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I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.
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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
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Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.
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Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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I don't feel like an idol to anybody. I don't feel anybody should look up to me.
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Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.
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We never see ourselves as others see us.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.
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Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.
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I've never liked rehearsing too much.
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I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.
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I never worked in an office in my life.
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I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.
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I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.
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I'm not one of those people who wake up chatting. I usually don't want to speak for the first 10 or 20 minutes. And I don't really want you to talk to me either!
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I get criticized for taking roles in films like 'Ghost Rider 2', but if you look at my resume, dude, I've mixed it up as much as I can.
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There's so much more purpose behind my getting up in the morning. Business is hard, really hard, but it's worth it.
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I didn't start out to become famous, so when it disappeared, I thought, well, that happens sometimes.
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I admire Tebaldi's tone; it's beautiful - also some beautiful phrasing. Sometimes, I actually wish I had her voice.
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Maybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn't matter.
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Hubble is very close to my heart, and going back to Hubble, because I was there once already in 1993, is really a great privilege for me.
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I never got beaten up, because I was a wisecracking jokester. I could make a bully laugh before he delivered a punch.
