Alan Jay Lerner Quotes
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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I look good. I feel good and not to sound conceited I sound great.
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He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.
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In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.
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I don't like a lot of rehearsing.
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If you buy the Chromebook Plus and intend to use it mainly as a Chromebook, I expect you'll have a good experience. But if you plan to rely heavily on Android apps, you're basically buying into the start of a journey, replete with odd-looking presentations of familiar apps, bugs and crashes.
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I'm from a reserve. A reservation. So I know everybody. Everybody knows me.
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Let people have an education and you can't stop them.
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I don't get out to parties often.
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I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.
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No agency is better than its account executives.
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I will sell all other things before JYSK. That's my baby, and you don't sell your baby.
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The hardest part about writing fiction is finding long stretches of time to do it: for me, this means writing mostly on Saturdays and Sundays. But I am always thinking about my characters, jotting down ideas in stolen moments and hoping I'll be able to make sense of them when the weekend rolls around.
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The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.
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When you come off 'The X Factor,' you're more likely to be a failure than a success because people almost want you to fail. There's this kind of feeling that you're separate from everyone else. You get it from artists, people in the industry, people at record labels.
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The further from one another, the nearer one can be.
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America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles.
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The only recording studio was in Motown - it was called Tamla/Motown at that time and we used to audition there because Smokey Robinson was at that studio and Berry Gordy was the president. I remember asking Smokey to listen to my group and he did. For the first couple of years we were just singing background. We used to back up Marvin Gaye; Mary Wells was there then, Marv Johnson, the Marvelettes, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Junior Walker and the All-Stars.
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I have had only two men in four years while he appears every week on the newspapers with another woman.
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All the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our places of recreation and amusement.
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You write a hit the same way you write a flop.
