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.
ALAN JAY LERNERWe 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.
More Alan Jay Lerner Quotes
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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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Mud can make you prisoner and the plains can make you dry.
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Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
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I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I’ve never done before.
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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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Why can’t a woman be more like a man?
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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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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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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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If you can’t paint in Paris, you’d better give up and marry the boss’s daughter.
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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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The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot.
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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, rise and look around you, and you’ll see who you are.
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