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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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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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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One thing I learned from all my years in business is you really have to work with the experts: you can launch something yourself, but unless you have the expertise and the marketing strategies and machinery behind you, you'll never be successful.
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The genre of '80s action movies, I think, changed really when The Matrix came out and Keanu Reeves was able to perform kung fu. Then you had Matt Damon in the Bourne films, doing a great job. So it's different now, they can train actors to do their own fights convincingly on screen, so those guys aren't needed anymore. But I think everything goes around in circles; people still do want to see the guys that can do stuff for real, that's why The Expendables is so popular. I think it will come back again.
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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I am quite sure that from America will come the greatest help for the cause of peace, and I consider it my duty to inform the people of Europe as to the feelings and intentions of the friends of peace in Europe.
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I was taught a very strong work ethic that included punctuality, which I've always felt is a sign of respect for others.
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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.
