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I don't know anyone who sits down to write a song hit except Irving Berlin. He can't help writing hits.

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Cole Porter
Age: 73 †
Born: 1891
Born: June 9
Died: 1964
Died: October 15
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Cole Albert Porter
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The world admits bears in pits do it, Even Pekingeses at the Ritz do it, Let's do it, let's fall in love.
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Nobody wants to phone me, Even collect.
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Some Argentines, without means, do it, People say, in Boston , even beans do it. Let's do it, let's fall in love .
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I'm a worthless check, a total wreck, a flop But if baby I'm the bottom, you're the top.
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All the inspiration I ever needed was a phone call from a producer.
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My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. ... (when asked who wrote 'Some Enchanted Evening') Rodgers and Hammerstein, if you can imagine it taking two men to write one song. ... Good authors, too, who once knew better words now use only four-letter words writing prose. ... Brush up your Shakespeare and they'll all kowtow.
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Brush up your Shakespeare, Start quoting him now, Brush up your Shakespeare And the women you will wow.
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Let's Do It Let's Fall in Love.
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It was great fun, But it was just one of those things.
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Who wants to be a millionaire? And go to ev'ry swell affair?
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I get no kick from champagne. Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all. So, tell me why should it be true, that I get a kick out of you?
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Live and let live, be and let be, Hear and let hear, see and let see. . . . Live and let live and remember this line: 'Your bus'ness is your bus'ness and my bus'ness is mine.'
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I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles.
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This rule I propose, Always have an ace in the hole. Always try to arrive at Having an ace some place private . Always have an ace in the hole.
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In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking. Now, Heaven knows, anything goes. The world has gone mad today, and good's bad today, and black's white today, and day's night today.
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Be like the bluebird who never is blue, For he knows from his upbringing what singing can do
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Night and day you are the one, Only you beneath the moon and under the sun.
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I've got you deep in the heart of me.
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Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above. Don't fence me in. Let me ride through the wide open country that I love Don't fence me in Let me be by myself in the evenin' breeze And listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees Send me off forever but I ask you please Don't fence me in
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