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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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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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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Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.
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Having an education is extremely valuable, but we need to help people connect their choice of studies to a potential career at an earlier age so that they are better prepared to get the job they want when the time comes.
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Whoopi Goldberg looked like me, she had hair like mine, she was dark like me. I'd been starved for images of myself. I'd grown up watching a lot of American TV. There was very little Kenyan material, because we had an autocratic ruler who stifled our creative expression.
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Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.
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My fans are truly my friends.
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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.
