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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You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.
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I feel blessed to be having a really easy pregnancy.
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A man can be a parent without knowing it: a woman cannot.
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I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves. Then you can edit or mess around with what they've come up with. But you have to allow the artist that space.
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Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter.
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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.
