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Garrison Keillor Quotes

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

Garrison Keillor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Funny God Comedy Bad Play Trouble

I do think that there are gray lines of morality in a newsroom, when it comes to some stories. The best-intentioned journalist still has a difficult mission, to try to boil down people.

People Think Mission Down Morality

In my experience, endorsements by public officials, they don't count for anything.

Experience Anything Count Public

I don't know why you would trade a stud pitcher.

You Know Why Trade Stud Would

People assume that I'm girly. But people who know me say I'm more boyish.

People Me Know Say More Boyish

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

Women Truth Politics Gender Doing

Not really, and actually my cholesterol was 190 when I had the heart attack. 190, which isn't that high. I took it down to about 130 and it's probably about 140 or 145 now.

Heart Down Now High Attack Actually

I don't watch what I eat, because the concept seems exhausting to me.

Me Eat Watch Seems Because Concept

There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions. But there is no such thing as institutional conditions without any individual actions and no such thing as individual action without institutional conditions. So there is always personal responsibility.

Responsibility Action Personal Always

I had to jump out of a plane! The shoot was for an editorial for a magazine; and it called for skydiving.

Jump Out Shoot Magazine Skydiving

The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.

Polly Berrien Berends

Love Children Parenting Loving Gain

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

Wise Thought Speech Look Nothing

People talk about me, and that's good, but a lot of it has been down to how my team-mates have supported me.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

Good People Me Down Talk Been

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