Alan Jay Lerner Quotes
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.
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People want to get to know you. I don't think America got a chance to know me in that short time.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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When I left my home to become an actress, my father didn't give me a single penny. I struggled a lot, and they had no idea what I went through. My grandfather even asked me to drop my surname when he learnt I was joining films.
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My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation.
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If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.
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Individuals with kidney disease who are able to obtain treatment early experience a higher quality of life and are able to maintain more of their day-to-day activities, including keeping their jobs.
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You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. They thought that one up at West Point.
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I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces.
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I don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already have a few scripts in my head.
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We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.
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At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States would be a double major in Russian and French, but I have to admit that the pressure of getting through so many books spoiled reading for me.
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I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.
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When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.
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As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.
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Some of the closest friends you make in TV are the producers who travel on field assignments with you - you're together 24/7.
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That's probably half the reason I wanted to be in a band - I wanted to see the world.
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The main problem in Britain is that there are too many competitions and too many games. There is no time to prepare properly for Europe or to introduce new ideas because there is far too much emphasis on domestic football.
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I'd love to do something with Kelly Clarkson because she's been a monumental influence on me. I love how she handles her celebrity. She's not in the tabloids a lot but everyone knows and respects her because she's got an amazing voice. That's something I aim towards.
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From the late David Broder on down, the most powerful and influential of the great Washington columnists and journalists tend to cultivate the driest, least lively voices possible.
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An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him.
