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.
ALAN JAY LERNERIt’s not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
More Alan Jay Lerner Quotes
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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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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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Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?
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Eternally noble, historically fair; Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat. Why can’t a woman be like that?
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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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Snow can burn your eyes but only people make you cry.
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We met at nine We met at eight I was on time No, you were late Ah yes! I remember it well.
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I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I’ve never done before.
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There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven’t used it for years!
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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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The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot.
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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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Why can’t a woman be more like a man?
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