Garrison Keillor Quotes

I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like I want to escape from the Midwest. A writer lives a great deal in his own head, and so one intuitively finds places where your head is more clear. New York for me is one of those places.

Garrison Keillor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeLoveGreatNew YorkMeNew

This business switching styles can't be done honestly by one man. As soon as he can play his instrument well, he can express himself, and all his life he has only one self.

Jimmy Rushing

LifeBusinessManSelfPlayDone

I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive.

Andrew Bird

WordsMeaningMoreBecauseElusive

I notice that my characters go out to dinner and have fun and take these great trips, but I spend so much time on their lives, I don't have much of a personal life of my own. I have to sort of remember to fill out that little notebook on me.

Angelina Jolie

LifeGreatTimeFunMeDinner

We need to focus our energies there, not these broad, blanket, kind of statements that will make it harder for us to deal with ISIS. We need to deal with ISIS in the caliphate. We need a strategy to destroy ISIS there. You can't do that without the cooperation of the Muslim world because they're as threatened as we are.

Jeb Bush

FocusWorldStrategyYouCooperation

A studio that's designed to make television shows is not a studio designed to make a fashion line, so a lot of times, we have ideas for things we might want to do but don't necessarily have the infrastructure to do them in a timely manner.

Stephanie Savage

IdeasFashionTelevisionWantLine

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.

Tracy Kidder

LearningWritingDoneWriteRight

I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.

Lois McMaster Bujold

WorkExperienceMeCareHospital

I can say I have become far more open about what I believe.

Cliff Richard

BelieveI CanSayI BelieveBecome

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

Arthur Helps

WisdomWiseFallKindNeverGround

I sleep on my stomach with my head under a bunch of pillows so if someone wants to come in and try to kill me they can't tell if I'm there or not, so they'll just leave.

Wiz Khalifa

SleepMeSomeoneTryLeaveHead

All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.

Sylvester Stallone

GoodPeopleCrazyFeelWayMore

Religion is all good, but we are almost back to medieval times now, where we are obsessed with going into religious wars and electing our politicians based on their religious statements.

Lexi Alexander

GoodReligionBackNowPoliticians

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