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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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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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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Reading great dialogue as an actor is such a rare privilege.
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I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat.
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Life Insurance Motto - Robbing the widows early and orphan.
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I speak a little bit of Italian, yeah. I understand more than I speak. I speak more of a dialect; my mum's from Naples and my dad's from Sicily, so it comes out little a bit of a cocktail of the Italian language.
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With a little bit of luck, you'll never work!