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Garrison Keillor Quotes

A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.

Garrison Keillor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: August 7, 1942

Topics

Home Time Go Clock Turn Out

Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception.

Joanna Trollope

Perception Name Help Professional

I started, actually, in journalism when I was - well. I started at the 'New York Times' when I was 18 years old, actually, but really got into journalism when I was 15 years old and had started a sports magazine which was trying to become a national sports magazine.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Sports New York Trying Journalism

My friend and I founded the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival to counter the negative images of Arabs in media. And we always made sure that the comedy came first. So we weren't a bunch of Arabs trying to be funny. We were a bunch of comedians who just happened to be of Arab heritage.

Funny Friend New York Negative Media

In a recent Valentine's Day posting on her fan website, Britney Spears says that - oh, who cares?

Valentine's Day Day Website Her Fan

Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.

Opportunity Name Always Answer

Being a pastor is pressure because we have to counsel people.

People Pressure Being Pastor Counsel

For a while, I couldn't get arrested in television because everybody thought of me as that guy on 'Trapper John.' So I thought, 'Great, I'll come out here to New York and do some theater, and when they get tired of me, I'll do something else.'

Brian Stokes Mitchell

Great New York Tired Me Thought New

I hated most music in the 1970s, especially disco, but Bowie was edgier.

Music Disco Hated Most Bowie 1970s

I'm the youngest of eight kids in my family. All tall, we all played basketball, so at my earliest memory, I was bouncing a ball in the backyard.

Family Memory Basketball Tall Ball

Art is all about giving yourself these terrifying challenges, these peaks to climb. You're at the bottom of the mountain at the start of every new project thinking, 'Am I going to make it?'

Art Mountain Yourself Climb Start

My solar energy programme alone will generate about a million jobs.

Alone Energy Will Solar Million

I'm strong and opinionated. Those qualities brought me a lot of problems since I was a little girl in school, saying 'I don't agree' and fighting with the children. It's part of my curiosity for life.

Life Girl Children School Me Saying

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