It’s not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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More Alan Jay Lerner Quotes
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You write a hit the same way you write a flop.
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Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?
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Snow can burn your eyes but only people make you cry.
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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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A third took the photographs. Another put the sketches in an exhibition, then into magazines, then in a book.
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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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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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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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Men die but an idea does not.
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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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Mud can make you prisoner and the plains can make you dry.
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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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We 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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Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
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