Oscar Hammerstein II Quotes
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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I'm a very positive person. I get excited easily, and I like to jump around.
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Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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Well I love preppy style; I like J. Crew for guys.
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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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I like risky stuff.
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I like to get to bed with a clear head.
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I can swear like a fishwife.
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My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.
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Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.
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I feel like I'm supposed to be a shooter.
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If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.
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If I knew how to operate a DVR, you'd find episodes of 'The Tavis Smiley Show,' 'Democracy Now!' and lots of stuff from TV Land. What you can find now on my Hulu account are Korean soap operas, 'Grey's Anatomy' and films from the Criterion collection.
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I think I'm kind of attracted to the material more than the medium. I'm not opposed to doing a television show, though. I actually think there are a couple of good ones. And there is some terrible theater. Film is a very different kind of acting.
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When you start your career, you have to figure out a way to separate yourself from the pack. So I went for a kind of preppy, psycho-killer look: I had short hair, grey flannel pants, and a button-down shirt. I think it worked, because nobody else was looking that way at that time.
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Media and technology are our greatest assets. And yet, they are our most undervalued and underused assets. Now when I say that, people look at me like I'm crazy because every young person we know in the world is never without media, ever.
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There is nothin' like a dame.
