Alan Jay Lerner Quotes
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.
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I bring spiritual books with me while travelling. I like books about thoughts and how you see the world.
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Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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I guess there are all these women with a big secret - they're hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: 'I've been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can't give him up even though he's embarrassing.'
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In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigger a reaction in their body.
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You win as a team, you lose as a team, you also do so many things together.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.
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The truth is, I'm not body confident.
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I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?
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When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
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I'd never played a character as long as I played Poussey. Spending time with her, so much time embodying that character, it was so - and still is and always will be - so special to me and a part of who I am.
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If they want a photograph, then just take it.
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In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism.
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Something I've learned being in this industry for so long is that if you want to work with somebody, call them up. Very few musicians have any illusions about genre boundaries. They are useful descriptive terms, but they don't really bind musicians.
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With a little bit of luck, you'll never work!
