Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
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.
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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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You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.
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Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.
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I could have danced all night!
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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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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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You write a hit the same way you write a flop.
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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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Lots of cosy sky That God and I can share. I need air. I need air.
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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 schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn’t sleep on Monday nights.
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Men die but an idea does not.
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Thank heaven for little girls! For little girls get bigger every day.
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An Englishmans way of speaking absolutely classifies him.
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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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