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Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.
Garry Shandling
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Garry Shandling
Age: 66 †
Born: 1949
Born: November 29
Died: 2016
Died: March 24
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Garry Emmanuel Shandling
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Oysters are supposed to enhance your sexual performance, but they don't work for me. Maybe I put them on too soon.
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I have such poor vision I can date anybody.
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I don''t like this reality television, I have to be honestI think real people should not be on television It''s for special people like us, people who have trained and studied to appear to be real
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But I really like hosting, I think it's a strength of mine. It allows me to improvise, and I love the spontaneity of that, and I think I'm funny behind the desk when interviewing someone.
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I actually think I'm more of a turtle than Verne is. Where Verne is up on two legs and moving at full speed and doesn't pull his head into the shell very often, I in reality was five or ten minutes later to every recording session.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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It's not the hair on your head that matters. It's the kind of hair you have inside.
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I've never had anyone put on a puppet show to convince me of anything. And I've done a lot of stuff. I don't know that I would put the puppets on when I was pitching a show. This was the head of the studio putting a puppet show on. And I'll tell you, he wasn't bad.
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I sold my house this week. I got a pretty good price for it, but it made my landlord mad as hell
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My first appearance as a guest on The Tonight Show was in '81.
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My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
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I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest.
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I'm dating a homeless woman. It was easier talking her into staying over.
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I think sometimes I should do more carousing, because I don't do much and maybe it would be fun occasionally. It's hard for me to have fun and I'm a serious thinker and a searcher and funny from the front.
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I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.
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I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.
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The only way I would go back to hosting would be if it were something entirely new. It would prevent me from wanting to host a standard-fare kind of talk show.
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Women need to know that not all guys are going to hurt them the way that the guy did before they started dating me. I know guys I wouldn't go out with.
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I guess he wanted to see a little more sexual activity because in real life, in bed I think less is more and let the woman come to me. Frankly, I don't even need a woman there.
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After making love I said to my girl, Was it good for you too? And she said, I don't think this was good for anybody.
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