Marvin Hamlisch Quotes
Normally I can balance two or three things. The problem is when you're out of work and don't have anything to balance. I think people assume you're always busy. You go through dry spells.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.
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I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
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I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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You want to be smart. You don't want to put yourself in a position where you can't be there for the team when it comes down to the end.
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I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.
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I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.
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Any guy hates Valentine's Day. Even if you're in love, you can't win on Valentine's Day. If you're married, you can't win on Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day is like the thing you want to avoid at all costs.
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Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
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Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
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I want to have a normal high-school experience.
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Whenever we defend democracy we find oil.
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When people reproach us, they only increase their own failings even as they are disclaiming them.
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I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.
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Normally I can balance two or three things. The problem is when you're out of work and don't have anything to balance. I think people assume you're always busy. You go through dry spells.
