An Englishmans way of speaking absolutely classifies him.
ALAN JAY LERNERYou write a hit the same way you write a flop.
More Alan Jay Lerner Quotes
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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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Mud can make you prisoner and the plains can make you dry.
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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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Snow can burn your eyes but only people make you cry.
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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.
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Stay close to the young… and a little rubs off.
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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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A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn’t sleep on Monday nights.
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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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England still will be here without you.
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By order summer lingers through September In Camelot.
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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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Thank heaven for little girls! For little girls get bigger every day.
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I’m getting married in the morning! / Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime.
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