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 LERNERCoughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
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On a clear day, rise and look around you, and you’ll see who you are.
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Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.
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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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Why can’t a woman be more like a man? Men are so honest, so thoroughly square.
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I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I’ve never done before.
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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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It’s not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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You write a hit the same way you write a flop.
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Men die but an idea does not.
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Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
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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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On a clear day, how it will astound you That the glow of your feelings outshines every star.
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You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.
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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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