All to often, however, what she [the woman] does want is the man she hopes she will make out of the man she already has.
ALAN JAY LERNERThank heaven for little girls! For little girls get bigger every day.
More Alan Jay Lerner Quotes
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If you can’t paint in Paris, you’d better give up and marry the boss’s daughter.
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By order summer lingers through September In Camelot.
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You will follow every mountain, sea and shore, You will see from far and near a world you’ve never seen before.
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We used to say that inside Cecil Beaton there was another Cecil Beaton sending out lots of little Cecils into the world. One did the sets, another did the costumes.
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Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.
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On a clear day, rise and look around you, and you’ll see who you are.
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Back home everyone said I didn’t have any talent. They might be saying the same thing over here, but it sounds better in French.
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Men die but an idea does not.
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I’m getting married in the morning! / Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime.
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On a clear day, how it will astound you That the glow of your feelings outshines every star.
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You write a hit the same way you write a flop.
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I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I’ve never done before.
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Lots of cosy sky That God and I can share. I need air. I need air.
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The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot.
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Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria.
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