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I loved feeling special. I hated feeling special.
Garrison Keillor
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Garrison Keillor
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 7
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Anoka
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Gary Edward Keillor
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Second violins can play a concerto perfectly if they're in their own home and nobody's there.
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... and people are to march around the church to commemorate the event, Palm Sunday, when Jesus rode into Jerusalem and was greeted with applause and with palms. People thought he had come to overthrow the Romans, but ... no ... he had come to change THEM ... and that led to things turning bad.
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Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards, and we will go to great lengths to prove it. Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists will laugh equally. Nobody wants to be left holding the joke.
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I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
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A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.
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I don't have a great eye for detail. I leave blanks in all of my stories. I leave out all detail, which leaves the reader to fill in something better.
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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Some of us have a relentless urge to attempt what we can never be good at and neglect our true calling.
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Every show is your last show. That's my philosophy.
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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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Being an English major prepares you for impersonating authority.
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People in cars cause accidents and accidents in cars cause people.
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Childhood is the small town everyone came from.
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Scripture doesn't promise that God will remove temptation, only that you'll be given strength to withstand it.
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I usually don't work with other people I do the whole show myself.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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I felt bad for that world that we have given a generation of kids.
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