Garrison Keillor Quotes

Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.

Garrison Keillor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Change is hard but inevitable.

Jenny Han

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When you make movies of based on real life, you try to exaggerate it.

Matthew Lawrence

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I'm expected to do what's right; I want to leave a legacy of positivity behind.

Angie Stone

LegacyWantRightLeavePositivity

Somebody wrote a script around us, but Dustin Abraham came with the best one.

Method Man

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It's happened time and time again, but the committee has always decided against it-the work was too conservative or didn't fit within the budget; there are millions of different reasons.

Tracey Emin

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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

Michel de Montaigne

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Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

Joseph Conrad

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I didn't know my Dad - he moved out early. And my mom's politics were kind of hardscrabble. She didn't think about Democrats or Republicans. She thought about who made sense. I've been both in my life.

Dennis Miller

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When you watch my films, you're feeling my heart.

Donnie Yen

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I try not to take much time off for lunch, so I usually end up with a tossed salad from the local deli.

Aslaug Magnusdottir

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Estate planning is an important and everlasting gift you can give your family. And setting up a smooth inheritance isn't as hard as you might think.

Suze Orman

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I think I was always bound to become two selves, if I wasn't already.

Ryan Gosling

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