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Garry Marshall Quotes

I never got beaten up, because I was a wisecracking jokester. I could make a bully laugh before he delivered a punch.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: November 13, 1934

Topics

Laugh Never Up Punch Got Because

I was my parent's first child, Joanna Catherine Going, named for my great-great grandmother Catherine, and my father's maternal aunt Johanna Burke, and bearing the initials of my father's father, John Christopher, who passed away just months before I was born.

Father Child Parent Born First Child

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

John D. Rockefeller

Life Success Wisdom Purpose Aim May

When you're acting, it's a fantasy already; maybe it's the costumes - I love it. It's so fun.

Love Fun You Acting Fantasy Maybe

It means a lot to be back in New York. Particularly since one of the last senior event scheduled in the States was supposed to be here in New York. We were supposed to play in Central Park right after 9-11 and when 9-11 happened obviously things changed.

New York Back Play New Right Park

You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.

John Poindexter

Failure Enough You Accept Possible

All the politicians in Uganda play to their fundamentalist benefactors in America because of the flow of money.

Roger Ross Williams

Money America Play Flow Politicians

Frankly, it is clear that we would be better off in the long run without federal funding, and the challenge right now is that if we lost it altogether, we would have a lot of stations go dark.

Challenge Better Long Dark Lost Run

I'm very much involved in art. I started buying art a few years ago and really like the work of T.C. Cannon, who is a native American artist. Then I was introduced to Soviet-era Russian impressionism and started collecting that, especially Gely Korzhev.

Work Art American Artist Buying

I'm better for all the things that have happened to me, the good and the bad.

Good Me Better Bad Things Happened

I had a Screech-from-'Saved by the Bell' kind of vibe in that I hung out with people and had friends while having, like, big, curly hair and being generally a dork.

People Hair Friends Kind Curly Bell

My parents were in the book business, my brothers still run the Dutton bookstores in Los Angeles, and I've been interested in editing books and journals all of my life.

Life Business Parents Book My Life

I don't lack confidence. I don't sweat. I don't want to get too Zen on you, but I have to run my own race.

Confidence You Sweat Want Run Race

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