Garry Marshall Quotes
I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that.
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
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I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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I love to push myself.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
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I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.
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I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.
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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
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I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
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May the work for the further development of chemical science, which has its strongest roots in this beautiful, strong and hard-working country of Sweden, continue to flourish in the future, for the promotion of culture and the benefit of mankind.
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It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.
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Even though I have Twitter, I only use it to say, 'Oh, this is coming out.' I would never voice anything about me, really.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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Only a completely unintelligible God can be said to be absolutely good and absolutely powerful yet tolerate the world as it is.
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Whenever I did sitcoms, that always happened on your show. Once the show was on the air, it takes on a life of its own. It develops, and it becomes something else.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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The good people look for challenges. When teaching becomes a prestigious profession, then you'll get good people.
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This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.
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Faith in oneself unlocks those hidden powers that all of us have, but that so few of us use.
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Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.
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I could never focus on my upper body as a skater, so I'm enjoying having symmetrical upper and lower body muscle.
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I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that.
