Garry Marshall Quotes
When I was five years old, my parents gave me a drum set for Christmas. My mom played the piano, and Dad played the saxophone badly. But that Christmas morning, I remember we all played together, and I thought it was the greatest day ever.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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The only power you have is the word no.
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I like independent films... European films. I do go and see popular films as well because my kids force me.
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People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'
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I'm glad I went through all the normal teenage dramas that a lot of people go through. I can really relate to 'Secret Life' because I witnessed those similar struggles.
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There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.
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I'd love to play a Bond villain. Yeah, I'd love to play a Bond villain. Everyone always says this to me; they always say, 'You've got to be a Bond villain', 'We're going to make you a Bond villain...' But they've never, ever approached me, I've never had a whiff of it. I think I'd love to play a Bond villain; I'd have great fun.
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When you're doing a play, you don't always have a practical world that you're working off of. You have to create it for yourself.
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Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips.
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To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me all these years.
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When I was five years old, my parents gave me a drum set for Christmas. My mom played the piano, and Dad played the saxophone badly. But that Christmas morning, I remember we all played together, and I thought it was the greatest day ever.
