E. Y. Harburg Quotes
Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
Quotes to Explore
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It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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All that money stuff was so strange; all it ever meant to me was freedom from worry. I'm happier now than I've ever been but I still wish I had that money.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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I would like to see more Bollywood films! The more stylized musicals are a new trend in the U.S. We are beginning to make musicals again after a long break, practically since the days of the studio structure, so perhaps we can learn a few things from Bollywood about this fun style of film-making.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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With this business, you have to learn to go with the flow. Not being able to grow in comfort is a beautiful thing when you're uncomfortable, so just embrace it and roll with it, and you'll come out stronger.
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In writing, I search for believability, simplicity and emotional impact.
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The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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The stigma that was once attached to things society deemed unhealthy served the purpose of making them undesirable. With the stigma gone, many people see little reason not to do whatever feels good at the moment.
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I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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Screen work always boils down to that moment between the camera and the actor or the actors. It always boils down to that, ultimately. You serve the camera.
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I have a desire to work with some actors I really like, so I hope to get out there soon and be back at it - maybe a little less music in the next one.
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Our writer would play the piano and then come up with songs on the spot that included all of us. It was so fun!
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Awards are not the only markers of success; I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies.
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It should be said upfront that I totally dig people who work in bookstores and libraries. They love books, and I love books, and that is all I really need to know. If they are friendly to me, then we are clearly soul mates.
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Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
