Garrison Keillor
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Radio Personality📖
American author, storyteller, humorist, voice actor, and radio personality
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Born
August 7, 1942
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Birthplace
Anoka
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Nationality
United States
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Spouse(s)
Jenny Lind Nilsson
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radio personalitywritervoice actorcomedianscreenwriter
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"Cursing is highly effective in person - someone kicks his car in rage, forgetting he's wearing flip-flops, flames pour from his mouth, and it's impressive. But you see it in print, and it's just ugly."
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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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"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function."
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"I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time."
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"My religion would be a gentle faith that believed in the sacredness of leisure. Napping as a form of prayer."
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"They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days."
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"Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average."
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