Ernest Gold Quotes
Seen from the point of view of the composer, the most nonsensical practice is that of casting people in musicals who are unable to sing. No one would cast a dancing part with someone who cannot dance sufficiently to come up to professional standards. The same is true of acting. But when it comes to singing, more often than not it is amateur night. . . . Either musicals should be written for specified performers in the first place, or they should be cast with people who are adequate to its dancing, acting and singing demands.
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A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
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Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
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I don't know anyone who likes the American League games better. Maybe some fans do. But if you're not an actual DH, you probably prefer the National League.
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Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir.
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Parsi theater was known for melodrama.
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I've been embracing gray hair since... high school, and I don't think that anything's changed since then.
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It's rare that I turn down a photo or autograph, because these are the people that support me, so why not support them. I love it and I invite it. I love what I do and the whole 'celebrity' life and all that.
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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
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In prose, you have a lot more room for digression, for very meaty kinds of dialogues. In graphic novels, you're writing haiku-length dialogue. Your job is to be efficient, to get out of the way of the art.
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I want to be remembered as the football player I was. The private person is nobody's business.
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There's no alternative to Catalan independence.
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True thusness is without defiling thought; it cannot be known through conception and thought.
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The residue of religion in my work appears as a modified transcendentalism, and the positivist scientific side of my thought appears as concreteness and realism. The effort to reconcile the two is at the core of all my poetry.
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In a sense I feel very much a part of the cinema now in a way where when I come back to the theater now I feel like a visitor. The cinema is really what I enjoy. I want to do more independent movies.
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I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.
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You aren't going to leave me alone are you?
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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
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Seen from the point of view of the composer, the most nonsensical practice is that of casting people in musicals who are unable to sing. No one would cast a dancing part with someone who cannot dance sufficiently to come up to professional standards. The same is true of acting. But when it comes to singing, more often than not it is amateur night. . . . Either musicals should be written for specified performers in the first place, or they should be cast with people who are adequate to its dancing, acting and singing demands.
