Garrison Keillor Quotes

When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.

Garrison Keillor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

John Denham

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I don't think men approach me for intellectual conversation.

Megan Fox

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The time has come for justice at the ballot box, and justice in the courts, and justice in the legislative halls, and justice in the governor's office.

John Jay Hooker

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When you're a screenwriter working on a film, you're not really even welcome on set, even if you know... When I wrote 'Elizabeth' and Shekhar Kapur was a friend of mine, but I wasn't really welcome on set, because the director is God and it's a very difficult position for a screenwriter who's put so much passion into that, into the writing.

Michael Hirst

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Dying should not be a taxable event.

Mike Fitzpatrick

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When my sitcom 'Miranda' first became successful, I was so in the thick of working and I was so stressed that I didn't really enjoy the moment. You suddenly look back and go, 'Gosh, you've just got to enjoy every day.' And now I wake up and literally pinch myself every day.

Miranda Hart

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I remember the first time I spoke to an editor. I thought I'd be sick, I was so nervous. The first time I spoke to a large group at a conference, I had the jitters for days beforehand.

Lori Foster

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I don't believe we're meant to just die and go to nothing.

David Thibodeau

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The future is to heal back to the mind again. Recognizing that the mind is all powerful - it controls every cell to every degree of its genetic expression.

Bruce Lipton

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I really have fans that are from 14 or 15 years old to 60.

Wyclef Jean

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I remember watching the first Million Man March as a kid, and I always knew that if I got a chance to go to one, I would go.

Ty Dolla Sign

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Things can change so fast on the internet.

Tim Berners-Lee

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