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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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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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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If we want to protect people against dictators or repression or torture, don't you need that rule to be universal so as to not end up with a situation where we do so only when it is comfortable, profitable and safe?
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I am quite amazed how, when people earn lots of money, they think they have to spend it on things that give them access to the club constituted by the people who are in their tax bracket.
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One of the most wonderful things about having a positive attitude is the number of people it touches, many times in ways you'll never know.
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When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.
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So much American science fiction is parochial - not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the future, more or less like ours, and with the same ideals, the same notions of how to do things, just bigger and flashier technology. Well, you know darn well it doesn't work that way...
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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.
