Marvin Hamlisch Quotes
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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We pay taxes, and we help the city coffers.
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It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
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I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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I myself feel that I'm a well-rounded player and got a lot better defensively and without the puck as time has gone on.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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Republicans have never been good at public relations.
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While only one day of the year is dedicated solely to honoring our veterans, Americans must never forget the sacrifices that many of our fellow countrymen have made to defend our country and protect our freedoms.
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I ride my horse at competition level.
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I don't do anything unless I think about it six months in advance.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar' on stage. We warmed up for Patti Smith, and then the director Michel Gondry got on the drums to play some songs from the soundtrack to his film Be Kind Rewind with Mos Def. It was pretty mad.
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I was journaling in Florence, and I was like, 'Oh, I have to come out of the closet. I have to break up with this guy' - he was my 'roommate.' So that was my awakening moment, when I stepped into my own skin while in a foreign country by myself and had a very stereotypical moment of revelation.
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I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news.
