Betty Comden Quotes
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I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.
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I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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Let people have an education and you can't stop them.
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I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four hours away, and we would take the bus up to New York.
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I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.
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Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that's all I've been doing for the last 25 years.
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People choose to read, and it takes effort. It's not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It's more than a hobby.
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The thing is: in order to reach an agreement, to reach that balance, sometimes it is sort of like that old Rhinestone Cowboy lyric, 'There'll be a load of compromisin' on the road to my horizon.' For those of you who were too young, or don't recall the song, made famous by country singer Glen Campbell, it is your loss.
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Whatever the reason is, I hope we can finish talking about the Olympics. It's gone, it's behind us. The schedule wasn't proper for players who went there and there is some fatigue in a lot guys' play right now.
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The unspoken word never does harm.
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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.
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Network television has been attempting to lure viewers for years with its low-interest programming only to have those viewers discover later that their brains are bankrupt.
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We can choose a path that leads us into trouble. It all comes down to our decisions at the end of the day.
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In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.
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If you say "I'm going to be an actor, but I'll get a teaching degree just in case," when things get hard, you'll just be a teacher and that's how you get stuck.
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By investing in diverse asset types from SD video to HD video to 4K video, we can satisfy the video needs of a wide array of users.
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Broadway's not what it used to be.
