Sheldon Harnick Quotes

When you collaborate, you have to be willing to scrap a lot.

Sheldon Harnick

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• Daniel was a wonderful and trustworthy partner. And a fine prankster as well.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Partner
  • Well
  • Trustworthy

• Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Painting
  • Kitchen
  • Busy

• When students have thanked me in the past for being their teacher, I have always felt that it was actually my love for the art of teaching they were speaking to.

  

  Taylor Mali
  • Love
  • Art
  • Past

• I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Energy
  • Angry
  • Used

• Everybody's fast and strong, but to go out there and throw pass-rush moves or be able to do something different on the run to get them off balance. Anybody can run into somebody, but if you can shake them a little bit at the line, that's what's helped me out as a player.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Different
  • Strong
  • Me

• You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.

  

  Claude Chabrol

• I think for most people, the audience probably couldn't tell the difference, but I know they [shots of visual effects] can be better. And the people working know they can be more precise. I'm still doing another round of sound mixing and color timing, pretty technical stuff. I think the movie [Life of Pi] is really presentable, nothing was left out that would take you out of the movie. I just need to perfect the job and I still have two weeks to go [to deliver final cut to Fox].

  

  Ang Lee
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• If you concern yourself with remaining relevant, you'll probably disappear into oblivion.

  

  Wade MacNeil Alexisonfire

• Good speakers usually find when they finish that there have been four versions of the speech: the one they delivered, the one they prepared, the one the newspapers say was delivered, and the one on the way home they wish they had delivered.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Good
  • Home
  • Wish

• Anyone who meets you and doesn't want to get to know you and be part of your life is stupid. I saw it when I was just a kid." "No. You thought I was a vampire and you wanted to be my friend so I wouldn't eat you." "Well, that too. But I found out soon enough you weren't a blood sucker and I still licked you.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Life
  • Stupid
  • Part

• Yeah, we have our differences, but we put those aside, and now we're making music. It's great.

  

  Alex Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Differences

• You don't have to say it out loud. I already know why you like me.' 'You do, huh?' 'Yep.' He wrapped his arms around my waist, pulling me closer. 'So,' I said. 'Tell me' 'It's an animal attraction,' he said simply. 'Totally chemical.' 'Hmm,' I said. 'You could be right.' 'It doesn't matter, anyway, why you like me.' 'No?' 'Nope.' His hands were in my hair now, and I was leaning in, not able to totally make out his face, but his voice was clear, close to my ear. 'Just that you do.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Animal
  • Able
  • Arms

• I was as unburdened as a piece of dandelion fluff, and he was the wind that stirred me about the world.

  

  Sarah J. Maas
  • World
  • Wind
  • Fluff

• I have a bit of an obsession with the 1950's and all those actors from Montgomery Clift to James Dean and Anthony Perkins. Just that whole era of Tennessee Williams to Elia Kazan.

  

  Sebastian Stan
  • Actors
  • Obsession
  • Eras

• I go to movies with my children and see fat kids burping, parents portrayed as total morons, and kids being mean and materialistic, and I feel it's really slim pickin's out there. There's a little dribble of a moral tacked on, but the story is not about that.

  

  Melissa Mathison
  • Being
  • Materialistic
  • Portrayed

• Affairs can be powerful detonators. They can invigorate a marriage that's flat, jolt people out of years of complacency. Fear of loss rekindles desire, makes people have conversations they haven't had in years, takes them out of their contrived illusion of safety.

  

  Esther Perel
  • People
  • Desire
  • Powerful

• What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Struggle
  • Choices
  • Littles

• When you collaborate, you have to be willing to scrap a lot.

  

  Sheldon Harnick
  • Willing
  • Collaborate
  • Scrap