Marvin Hamlisch Quotes
My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.
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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.
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In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.
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When I was 6, I opened my mouth and didn't stop singing. I had a voice and wanted to use it.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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I always encourage over-tipping if you can afford it because... share the wealth.
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This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
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I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'
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I like 'Sponge Bob' and 'The Last Airbender.' I like shows where people get creative to do the impossible.
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If I didn't have a girlfriend, I'd have 10 girls at the studio, and they would make me not rap.
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I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
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We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.
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Twitter has been a godsend for travelling.
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There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.
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We're not going to do a Facebook game aimed at 35-year old women about farming.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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The United States will not be in Afghanistan forever.
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Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.
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A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing in its path other than the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity.
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If there is a public perception at all, they see the producer as a big old guy who smokes a cigar and has lots of money and lots of power. That's not what a producer is and, if it ever was what a producer was, it certainly hasn't been for a long time.
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My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.
