Elmer Bernstein Quotes

One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it.

Elmer Bernstein

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SuccessBusinessYouPersonStrange

The cure until the late 1940s, when there was an antibiotic discovered for tuberculosis, was basically rest. It was fresh, cold air, lots of food - five meals a day, lots of sleep, not very much talking, and for some people, complete stillness.

Andrea Barrett

FoodDaySleepPeopleColdRest

On this thin, scarcely real and yet so perceptible sensation the whole world hung as on a faintly trembling axis, and this in turn rested on the two people in the room.

Robert Musil

PeopleWorldRealTwo PeopleTurn

I'm not complaining about doing 20-hour days. It's a joy to be able to work on yet another film.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

WorkJoyDoingComplainingDays

Obviously, the World Cup is nice and the Euros is really nice as well, but I have always dreamed of the Champions League.

Romelu Lukaku

WorldChampionsNiceAlwaysCup

I have no real ambition or strategy. If this was all to finish, it's totally fine. There's a lot more to do out there than put on silly frocks and shout for a living. I could always go back to, 'Would you like soup with that?'

Michelle Gomez

AmbitionSoupStrategyYouBackGo

I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn't last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn't have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.

Mitski

FriendsDoingHouseMy OwnKidOver

Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.

Julia Roberts

FunnyLoveAgeLightQualityYou

With wealth comes responsibility.

Jonathan Sacks

ResponsibilityWealth

I never dress appropriately in terms of comfort, but I wear what I'm feeling. I often to like to feel a little different from everyone else.

Chelsea Leyland

DressFeelFeelingComfortNever

I love shopping! I'm impatient though. I'll go to the mall and in 30 minutes be ready to go.

Ciara

LoveShoppingReadyGoMallMinutes

I think the genre of musical theatre, when it started, the pop songwriters of the time were writing the music. I think sometimes when we write musicals now, we keep writing in that same style, as though that's the musical theatre genre... We have to figure out how to tell stories with the music that we listen to now, or we'll lose our audience.

Renee Elise Goldsberry

MusicTimeStyleWritingTheatre

Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

Marshall McLuhan

BeginningEndNeverAnythingJust

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