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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.

Garrison Keillor

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Garrison Keillor
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 7
Author
Comedian
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Television Producer
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Anoka
Minnesota
Gary Edward Keillor
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I remember when I switched from Christmas to sex as the secret of happiness.
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There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors became my family.
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The greatness of America is that it produces exuberant geniuses like Louis Armstrong and Fred Astaire and Leonard Bernstein. We are meant to be a jazzy people who talk big and jump on the table and dance we aren't supposed to be dopey and glum and brood over old injuries.
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God plays a lot of jokes on us to get our attention.
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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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Have interesting failures.... If you need to have a personal crisis have it now. Don't wait until midlife, when it will take longer to resolve.... Don't pity yourselves. Lighten up. Seek people with a sense of humor. Avoid humorless people-and do not marry one, for God's sake.
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