Garry Shandling Quotes

That's what we were exploring on 'Larry Sanders' - the human qualities that have brought us to where we are now in the world: the addiction to needing more and wanting more and talking more. We were examining the labels put on success - is it successful to be on TV every day, to be famous, to have a paycheck?

Garry Shandling

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: comedian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 29, 1949 - March 24, 2016

Topics

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The affinity towards suits was a functional thing for me early on because I was thrifting at secondhand shops, and it was also initially a way of grieving - my father had passed, and he used to wear suits all the time.

Jidenna

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TV was my life, growing up. I ran home from school to watch television, and even did my homework with the TV on - my mom had a rule that as long as my grades didn't fall, I was allowed to. So it was my dream to work in television.

Melissa Rauch

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I've always felt happy at Newcastle. But things have gone a bit differently for me since we got a new manager.

Robert Laurent

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When we're talking about technology that involves weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, there has to be an element of preemption.

John Sununu

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I just feel very lucky to be able to write fiction because I think, otherwise, I would have had to spend a fortune on a psychiatrist - and I still wouldn't get 1/100th of what I get writing fiction.

Amy Tan

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The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.

Anacharsis

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I've never done an action show, really. On 'Jericho,' other people got to ride horses and shoot guns, but I never did.

Sprague Grayden

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I can play really terrible human beings, and I seem to have a quality that people can, if not necessarily forgive me those sins, at least cut me some slack.

Ron Eldard

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I want to work really hard.

Ruben Loftus-Cheek

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I get extra time to take the test because of my ADD. Everybody's brains works differently and I just need longer for things to register.

Mary-Kate Olsen

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The important thing about any book is that you have to have a good story and that it has to be exciting. Then it's nice to add other levels underneath that people can pick up on.

Jonathan Stroud

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You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.

Joni Mitchell

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