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I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I've never done before.
Alan Jay Lerner
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Alan Jay Lerner
Age: 67 †
Born: 1918
Born: August 31
Died: 1986
Died: June 14
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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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Mud can make you prisoner and the plains can make you dry. Snow can burn your eyes but only people make you cry.
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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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Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.
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Stay close to the young... and a little rubs off.
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You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.
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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. A third took the photographs. Another put the sketches in an exhibition, then into magazines, then in a book.
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The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot. By order summer lingers through September In Camelot.
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I'm getting married in the morning! / Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime. / Pull out the stopper! Let's have a whopper! / But get me to the church on time!.
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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. Just look at it. No wonder so many artists have come here and called it home. Brother, if you can't paint in Paris, you'd better give up and marry the boss's daughter.
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An Englishmans way of speaking absolutely classifies him.
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There's a smile on my face for the whole human race.
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England still will be here without you.
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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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There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years! 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? Men are so honest, so thoroughly square 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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Men die but an idea does not.
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