Oscar Hammerstein II Quotes
I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
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There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how they will be seen by others through their work. When you create, you aspire to do justice to yourself, to remake yourself, and there is always the fear that you will expose the very thing that you hoped to transform.
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
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The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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Blip.tv is growing its audience by forming partnerships with traditional TV manufacturers and a new breed of company in the set-top box market that lets consumers connect to the Internet via their televisions.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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I support gay unions. I think the government should get out of the marriage business completely - leave marriages to the churches. And grant civil unions to gay couples, grant civil unions to a man and woman.
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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There's so much bullying with young people and them feeling like they can't come out, and they don't know what to do. And it's something that you have to work through. And, you know, for me, it was - I came out, and then I went back in for a minute. And then I came out, and I was like, 'You know what? This is who I am.'
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In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
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Many of America's historical cornbreads were staple breads for people who didn't have many other options.
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If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.
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I just don't want to be rapping forever. I love it, but sometimes you got goals for yourself.
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You see they'd have fitted him to a T.
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As a kid, I always used to make clothes. My grandmother made everything with me - she taught me how to knit.
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I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.
