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 LERNERIf you can’t paint in Paris, you’d better give up and marry the boss’s daughter.
More Alan Jay Lerner Quotes
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Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?
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Why can’t a woman be more like a man?
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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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Lots of cosy sky That God and I can share. I need air. I need air.
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I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I’ve never done before.
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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 see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.
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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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It’s not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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Don’t let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot.
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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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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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If you can’t paint in Paris, you’d better give up and marry the boss’s daughter.
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Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?
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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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