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 LERNEROn a clear day, rise and look around you, and you’ll see who you are.
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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Pull out the stopper! Let’s have a whopper! / But get me to the church on time!.
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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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Thank heaven for little girls! For little girls get bigger every day.
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The female sex has no greater fan than I, and I have the bills to prove it.
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You write a hit the same way you write a flop.
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I’m getting married in the morning! / Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime.
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There’s a smile on my face for the whole human race.
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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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Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.
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Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?
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Why can’t a woman be more like a man?
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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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Why can’t a woman be more like a man? Men are so honest, so thoroughly square.
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There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven’t used it for years!
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