Marvin Hamlisch Quotes

You know, anyone who invites me to do something makes me feel special.

Marvin Hamlisch

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• There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Woman
  • Film
  • Director

• WWE was an opportunity to wrestle in front of thousands - in 2013, I did 227 matches, and almost all of them were in front of more than three or four thousand people, with a high of 70,000 plus. It was an incredible experience to be part of that.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Experience
  • High

• An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Help
  • Idea
  • Expression

• However, the radio and national media depend much more on the hype from a good record label, and from a ' buzz ' about a band, then from just one or two good shows. There are a lot of artists that have a ton of good press going for them, and still do not make it big in the US.

  

  Pat Garrett
  • Good
  • Band
  • Media

• I sleep a lot on Sunday. It's really great.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Great
  • Sleep
  • Sunday

• I didn't go to school a lot.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • School
  • Go
  • Lot

• I actually didn't really start to get into the research of film until I was much older. I decided I wanted to direct a lot earlier than I started to do the research, which is really strange, but it is the case.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Start
  • Strange
  • Research

• But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.

  

  Eddie Bracken
  • Work
  • Stage
  • Excitement

• Brain surgery couldn't happen without the patient's own active voice to guide the work. The patient is part of the surgical team here, perhaps the most important part, and above all, that's what makes neurosurgery different.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Work
  • Different
  • Important

• I don't think there was enough skepticism because I think most of us kind of believed that Saddam Hussein was building biological, chemical, and perhaps even, nuclear weapons.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Think
  • Kind
  • Building

• Between the mysteries of death and lifeThou standest, loving, guiding,- not explaining;We ask, and Thou art silent,- yet we gaze,And our charmed hearts forget their drear complaining;No crushing fate, no stony destiny!Thou Lamb that hast been slain, we rest in Thee.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Art
  • Death
  • Rest

• Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, p. 461

  

  Oswald Spengler

• Whoever did this must be exterminated, and they must be exterminated by us.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover

• After divorce, women’s biggest fear is economic deprivation; men’s biggest fear is emotional deprivation.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Fear

• 'Was the cow crossed?''No, your worship, it was an open cow.'

  

  A. P. Herbert

• Pure as the snow the summer sunNever at noon hath look'd upon, -Deep, as is the diamond wave,Hidden in the desart cave, -Changeless, as the greenest leavesOf the wreath the cypress weaves, -Hopeless, often, when most fond,Without hope or fear beyondIts own pale fidelity, -And this woman's love can be!

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • Deep

• I noticed in the front row a small, very pale, almost white man, old, tremendously alert, old in the only way I love old age, namely more alive for all the years, more attentive, more unrelenting, expectant and ready, as though he still had to make up his mind about most things and must not disregard anything.

  

  Elias Canetti
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Age

• Neither space nor time has any existence outside the system of evolving relationships that comprises the universe. Physicists refer to this feature of general relativity as background independence.

  

  Lee Smolin
  • Time
  • Space
  • Universe

• Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many pleasant things it will do to you.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Fear

• To focus on discipline is to ignore the real problem: We will never be able to get students (or anyone else) to be in good order if, day after day, we try to force them to do what they do not find satisfying.

  

  William Glasser
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Focus

• Fred Astaire was retired when he worked in 'The Pleasure of His Company.' They were lucky to get him to play the father part.

  

  Debbie Reynolds
  • Father

• There are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years, and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you were children or adolescents; and literally won their case by default, because there was no one to defend me.

  

  Socrates
  • Children
  • Age
  • Adolescents

• You know, anyone who invites me to do something makes me feel special.

  

  Marvin Hamlisch