Garry Marshall Quotes
I am a total believer of making the process a good time - make it memorable, have some fun, try to shoot high in your quality and then don't get crazy, see what happens.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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Now is the only thing that exists.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
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I eat a lot of chocolate.
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Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.
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I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.
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Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that's the least objectionable to them. They're not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they'll go to bed unhappy.
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The American public highly overrates its sense of humor. We're great belly laughers and prat fallers, but we never really did have a real sense of humor. Not satire anyway. We're a fatheaded, cotton-picking society. When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.
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In Spain, you can go into any tapas bar, and you'll see anchovies all over the menu.
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The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him better, it makes him worse and when he dies he is not reconciled to the law but defiant, that is, damned. Lear is not a tragic hero, Othello is.
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I break down the tape like I'm a quality-control coach, just like I was with the Packers in 1992. I break it down by hand, every play.
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I am a total believer of making the process a good time - make it memorable, have some fun, try to shoot high in your quality and then don't get crazy, see what happens.
