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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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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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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Although I am not Jewish, I have been to many Friday night Shabbats at my friends houses, and I absolutely love it. It's a great and inspiring tradition to keep the family close.
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My mother always said don't marry for money, divorce for money.
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It's hard sometimes if you think a character should look a certain way and you're being pushed to do it differently. I've had fights over that. That's why it's so important that you work with good people.
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The Anarchists most certainly believe in the Church; only they insist that all its work shall be purely voluntary, and that its discoveries and achievements, however beneficial, shall not be imposed upon the individual by authority.
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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.
