Garrison Keillor Quotes - Page 11

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• I grew up in a fundamentalist protestant family that stressed that we were a select people and so we were to avoid contact with others who did not share our faith.

  Garrison Keillor

  People, Stressed, Share

  "Humor has to surprise us, otherwise it isn't funny". Interview with George Plimpton, blankonblank.org.

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• Sometimes you have to avoid mentioning things because people's feelings are tender.

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  People, Feelings, Sometimes

  "An Interview With Garrison Keillor, Host of A Prairie Home Companion" by Gillian Ferris, knau.org. May 30, 2014.

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• I like to sing and it's just really fun to sing, and I don't get too much. And at my house I'm not allowed to because, you know, your children can't stand it when you sing at home.

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  Children, Fun, Home

  "Garrison Keillor, Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin Talk A Prairie Home Companion". movieweb.com. June 09, 2006.

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• I write on a laptop, so it's impossible to count drafts anymore.

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  Writing, Laptops, Impossible

  "Garrison Keillor, Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin Talk A Prairie Home Companion". movieweb.com. June 09, 2006.

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• It's confidence; it has to be something good about getting old. One of the things is that you just don't stress about some stuff that made you so worried.

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  Stress, Stuff, Worried

  "Garrison Keillor, Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin Talk A Prairie Home Companion". movieweb.com. June 09, 2006.

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• I feel it's so hard for young actors; It's a different world that they're coming up in; there's so much money to be made off of their personal lives, and people are bound and determined to make that money.

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  People, Different, Actors

  Source: movieweb.com

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• It was a pleasure to have somebody else be the boss. It wouldn't have been nearly as much fun any other way. He's been around and made a lot of movies and he's a great straightforward person to work for. And it was a pleasure to see other people to pick up characters that you've sketched out loosely on paper and make them into something fascinating.

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  Fun, Character, People

  "Garrison Keillor, Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin Talk A Prairie Home Companion". movieweb.com. June 09, 2006.

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• I don't associate work with feelings of satisfaction. Rather, guilt, frustration, and resentment of people who write better than I do.

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  Writing, Frustration, People

  Source: jonathanlowe.wordpress.com

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• I usually don't work with other people; I do the whole show myself.

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  People, Shows, Whole

  "Garrison Keillor, Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin Talk A Prairie Home Companion". movieweb.com. June 09, 2006.

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• When you come to expect humor of people, you will never get it.

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  People

  "Humor has to surprise us, otherwise it isn't funny". Interview with George Plimpton, blankonblank.org. November 28, 1994.

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