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Elmer Bernstein Quotes

Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired to write the score. But at the same time you'd written The Man with the Golden Arm score.

Elmer Bernstein

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: american
Birth: April 4, 1922 - August 18, 2004

Topics

Time Man You Young Golden Write

My country is in the toilet. And when my country is in the toilet, the world is in the toilet.

Jeremy Scott

World Country Toilet

I'm a serious student of music, a perfectionist in the studio, and I take the arrangement and production of it very seriously, down to the mixing and mastering even. But at the same time I'm having so much fun with it. I try not to take myself so seriously.

Mayer Hawthorne

Music Time Myself Fun Down Student

I'm an actor. Since I was a teenager, I have had to play different characters, negotiating the cultural expectations of a Pakistani family, Brit-Asian rudeboy culture, and a scholarship to private school. The fluidity of my own personal identity on any given day was further compounded by the changing labels assigned to Asians in general.

Riz Ahmed

Family Culture Day School Identity

I had felt for a long time that, if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so.

Rosa Parks

Time Long White Person Long Time Up

I think the poets and musicians, they belong to everybody.

Ruby Dee

Think Musicians Belong Poets I Think

For eight years, I've served on the Indian Affairs committee, two years as the ranking member. I've been on that committee since Day One. I will stay on the committee for as long as I'm in the Senate because of my commitment to making a difference for Alaska Natives.

Lisa Murkowski

Commitment Day Long Will Alaska Two

Joss Whedon who created 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer,' 'Angel,' and all that... he is a genius.

Christian Kane

Angel Genius Vampire Who He Created

Samoa Joe is great at kickboxing; he's super aggressive - he's tough.

Bobby Lashley

Great Tough Aggressive Kickboxing He

I think everything belongs in a certain place, for kids who feel they don't belong anywhere. A museum is an institution like a library where everything has a place, everything belongs.

Brian Selznick

Library Think Feel Museum Place

I'm a mother myself, and sometimes mothers get a bad rap just because they've tried to do their job. Some people have more of a knack for it than others do, but almost all of it falls to, 'My mother's suffocating me.' Whatever.

Annie Potts

Mother Myself Job People Me Bad

My greatest qualification for writing fiction was my ability to lie with a straight face as a child.

Ashwin Sanghi

Lie Child Writing Face Ability

I think Pique, apart from the odd personal remark, has never had a bad opinion about any of my teammates at Real Madrid, but obviously, when he attacks Real Madrid, our club, and our institution, it kind of tarnishes all of the rest of what he says.

Sergio Ramos

Opinion Rest Think Bad Personal