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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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Garry Shandling
Age: 66 †
Born: 1949
Born: November 29
Died: 2016
Died: March 24
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You know it's funny that none of the regular late-night shows now use guest hosts the way Johnny did. No one talks about it much, but it's curious that they don't do it. They would each have to be asked the reason why they don't.
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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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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 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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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
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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'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'm very loyal in relationships. Even when I go out with my mom I don't look at other moms.
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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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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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In the year 2525, that song will be even less popular than when it first came out.
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When I'm not in a relationship, I shave one leg. That way, when I sleep, it feels like I'm with a woman.
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Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.
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I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.
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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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I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest.
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I think I look great in green, and I'm going to start wearing more green.
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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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