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Every show is your last show. That's my philosophy.

Garrison Keillor

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Garrison Keillor
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 7
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Anoka
Minnesota
Gary Edward Keillor
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I've seen the truth, and it makes no sense.
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Easter is so disappointing. You suffer all the way through lent, and what do you get for it? A ham.
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Love has the power to rescue us and not let go, otherwise it isn't love
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In the end, all solutions are temporary.
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A good friend is a person who thinks you're one of the good eggs, even if he knows you're a little cracked.
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English is the perfect language for preachers because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say.
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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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Your life is a work of art, and in the end, the underlying theme of great art is bravery and hope and love.
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Don't pour the oil directly into my navel, pour it on my sternum and let it run down into my navel, you ignorant peasant.
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I usually don't work with other people I do the whole show myself.
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As for family values, they are whatever they are - some families are tight, others are blown away like dandelion puffs. A main value in Minnesota is still: don't waste my time, don't B.S. me, I wasn't born yesterday.
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Children can find other children to be pals. Children need fathers to be fathers.
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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
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You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.
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That's what I am, Frank thought, an ordinary genius. He had unlocked the secret of radio. The sport of the ordinary! Brillliant me like Reed Seymour couldn't figure this out for the life of them! Reed was ashamed of radio. ...radio was a cinch if you kept reaching down and grabbing up handfuls of the ordinary.
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As for kissing on the first date, you should never date someone whom you would not wish to kiss immediately.
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I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.
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Humor is not a trick, not jokes. Humor is a presence in the world - like grace - and shines on everybody.
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I love rhymes I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from Knoxville who bought her brassieres by the boxful.' I just feel a sort of small triumph.
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To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich.
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