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Dorothy Fields Quotes

A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes it back, stalls it, the audience won't buy it; they'll be unhappy.

Dorothy Fields

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: July 15, 1905 - March 28, 1974

Topics

Song Story Unhappy Back Place Ahead

The fact of the matter is that we're all aging, and there's this stigma that older actresses don't work as much as younger actresses, and I don't think that's true anymore.

Jewel Staite

Work Aging Think True Matter Older

You know, Arabs are critical of United States foreign policy, but they also associate the U.S. with democratic principles and opportunity.

Jehane Noujaim

Opportunity You Know Principles

Anybody with my background in the airline business who is not deaf is a fraud.

Maurice Flanagan

Business Deaf Fraud Airline Who

I think the most destructive thing is fear: when people don't want to say what they think.

Amanda Harlech

Fear People Think Say Want Most

One thing we cannot put a number on is the number of casualties because people were never connected to their purpose in life.

Steve Southerland

Life Purpose People Connected Never

Part of my success with urban bachata is reinventing yourself as an artist and continuing to give people different kind of fusions, mixing up the elements and concepts without changing the beat.

Romeo Santos

Success Yourself People Artist Kind

I got real bored in '96. Wasn't nobody to fight. Nothing to look forward to. That's when I started playing basketball again. Had I not started playing basketball, my boxing career would have failed. But I went from a sport where nobody could touch me to another where I couldn't touch nobody.

Roy Jones Jr.

Fight Me Basketball Forward Look

So who or what is to blame for baseball games that go on forever? Two oft-cited culprits are constant replay calls and batters who leave the box in between every pitch to adjust their gloves and helmet and shin guards and elbow pads and then knock the dirt off their cleats before working up their stride for the next at-bat.

Mary Pilon

Baseball Blame Helmet Go Games Dirt

Gossip is essentially storytelling: storytelling about people whom we know.

Mona Simpson

People Gossip Know Storytelling Whom

My main lucky number is 9. That was my baseball number in high school. My other lucky number is 3, because that's the one I wore before I got to high school and had to pick a different one.

Jason Aldean

School Baseball High School Lucky

I got what they called a diabetic stroke. Here's what it is, my left hand and my left leg. You know when your leg falls asleep? It's like that constantly. It's not painful, but it's so annoying. My leg is all tingly and my arm is all tingly.

Dick Van Patten

You Know Hand Painful Annoying Here

Tia and I have been together for 10 years. Our relationship is not just something that happened overnight. She was with me when I moved to California. I had nothing, and she was established, who had all this money, but she didn't care. That's how I knew she was real.

Cory Hardrict

Relationship Money Together Me Care