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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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
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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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My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.
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Computer power grows according to Moore's law, as does the sophistication of handheld devices.
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The whole idea of love is scary - so is being with someone for the rest of your life and being happy with them for the rest of your life. There's lots of research to suggest that, actually, love's not really that simple.
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Being put in a group, I hate that. I don't think anyone likes it. Everyone just wants to be their own person.
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Actors sometimes immerse themselves into it so deeply that the line between who they are and their character can become blurred. For me, I think it's just about getting clearer on my whole life and who I am in order to make it possible for me to play whatever character is presented to me at a particular time.
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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.
