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I like to get up in the morning and see people.

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Garry Marshall
Age: 81 †
Born: 1934
Born: November 13
Died: 2016
Died: July 19
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The Bronx
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Garry Kent Marshall
Garry K. Marshall
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There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it
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I really wasn't too interested in writing Father Knows Best and Ozzie And Harriet. I thought they were pleasant enough, but it wasn't really what I wanted to do.
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[Beaches] is a pretty picture and I just liked having somebody like Bette [Mudler] who can be flying in the big comedy scenes and have her do more like a realistic part.
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For Joey Bishop, always was kind of the lost soul, so I did a traffic joke.
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Women are pretty good. Women usually fight about some stupid guy and then when they figure out it's just a stupid guy they make up and move on.
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I played a lot of ball and got hurt, stitches and this and that. That, sometimes they said, built character. I don't think it built anything.
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Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing
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I made nepotism an art form, so I get to work with a lot of relatives and they're part of it.
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