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.
ALAN JAY LERNERThere’s a smile on my face for the whole human race.
More Alan Jay Lerner Quotes
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For a painter, the Mecca of the world for study, for inspiration, and for living is here on this star called Paris.
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You write a hit the same way you write a flop.
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Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?
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Pull out the stopper! Let’s have a whopper! / But get me to the church on time!.
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A third took the photographs. Another put the sketches in an exhibition, then into magazines, then in a book.
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Lots of cosy sky That God and I can share. I need air. I need air.
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Eternally noble, historically fair; Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat. Why can’t a woman be like that?
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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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Just look at it. No wonder so many artists have come here and called it home. Brother.
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Stay close to the young… and a little rubs off.
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It’s not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot.
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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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An Englishmans way of speaking absolutely classifies him.
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Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?
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