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Marvin Hamlisch Quotes

My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.

Marvin Hamlisch

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: american
Birth: June 2, 1944 - August 7, 2012

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Business Career Never Mean Write

Though I was a mother at 21, being a grandmother makes the whole thing absolutely normal and gorgeous. The relief, the joy of being a grandmother is wonderful.

Mother Joy Grandmother Normal Relief

And here where the fact that we've given over half a billion dollars to New York really plays a role, because New York has already made a lot of investments in the kinds of things which you'd expect to have as basic security.

Michael Chertoff

New York You Security New Over Role

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

Women Retirement Wish Place Sin Who

In places like Glasgow and Newcastle, audiences have a tradition of being amusingly combative. But they're not trying to ruin the act, they're trying to give you a challenge. It's like a cat playing with a mouse - the cat doesn't want the mouse to die, it wants to keep it alive for its own amusement and to be entertained by its struggle.

Challenge Struggle Die Trying You

I want people to remember me when I retire as a fighter who would fight anyone - that Tony Bellew was scared of no one. I'm happy with that. Anything more is a bonus.

Fight Happy People Me Remember Want

I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.

Roberto Cavalli

Beauty Personality Woman Intelligence

My shareholders expect me to make the most profit. That's the ugly, dirty truth.

Truth Ugly Me Dirty Profit Expect

My father was a doctor, so I thought I was going to be a doctor, too, but I couldn't do maths; I couldn't do science. I was hopeless at chemistry.

Miriam Margolyes

Father Science Doctor Thought Going

When I moved from Cambridge, I donated all my fiction. I carefully cut out pages the authors had autographed for me. I didn't want those autographed books showing up on eBay.

Me Showing Up Want Out Up Fiction

You have to understand the medium you're writing for. People jump into writing musicals without realizing how complicated they are. Knowing one form doesn't necessarily mean you know the other. You have to be comfortable with it.

Jason Robert Brown

People Writing You Complicated Jump

You come to work because the office is a resource: The office is a place where you can meet with other people, and the office has libraries of books and information on CD-ROM that might help you with your work.

Work People Help You Information

I just feel so lucky to tell stories and make up stories and share them with people.

People Feel Lucky Tell Up Share

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