If you can’t paint in Paris, you’d better give up and marry the boss’s daughter.
ALAN JAY LERNER
ALAN JAY LERNER
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Alan Jay LernerAlan Jay Lerner 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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