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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My family is a praying family, a Christian family.
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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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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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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 Reverend Jeremiah Wright would baptize Obama, perform his marriage to Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, baptize their daughters, and draw him into the raucous, restless family of faith that Obama had never known before.
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The central question driving literary aesthetics in the age of the iPad is no longer 'How should novels be?' but 'Why write novels at all?'
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All actors should experience public failure.
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Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.
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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.
