There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven’t used it for years!
ALAN JAY LERNERBack 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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If you can’t paint in Paris, you’d better give up and marry the boss’s daughter.
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On a clear day, on a clear day, you can see forever, and ever, and ever more.
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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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England still will be here without you.
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Why can’t a woman be more like a man?
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Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.
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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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Why can’t a woman be more like a man? Men are so honest, so thoroughly square.
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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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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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Mud can make you prisoner and the plains can make you dry.
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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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Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?
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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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Snow can burn your eyes but only people make you cry.
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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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I could have danced all night!
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You write a hit the same way you write a flop.
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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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On a clear day, how it will astound you That the glow of your feelings outshines every star.
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Thank heaven for little girls! For little girls get bigger every day.
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Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
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Lots of cosy sky That God and I can share. I need air. I need air.
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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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The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot.
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