Sheldon Harnick famous quotes
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When you collaborate, you have to be willing to scrap a lot.
-- Sheldon Harnick -
A fiddler on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But here, in our little village of Anatevka, you might say every one of us is a fiddler on the roof trying to scratch out a pleasant, simple tune without breaking his neck. It isn't easy. You may ask 'Why do we stay up there if it's so dangerous?' Well, we stay because Anatevka is our home. And how do we keep our balance? That I can tell you in one word: tradition!
-- Sheldon Harnick -
I'd heard that Lenny Bruce used a lot of profanity and obscenities in his act, and I was curious.
-- Sheldon Harnick -
Love was not something that people married for generally in those days. They married for security. They married for economic reasons, you know, companionship - but not love.
-- Sheldon Harnick -
As far as I remember, there was no actual lyric written to that.At the very beginning of "Fiddler on the Roof," there's a violin solo, an unaccompanied violin solo.
-- Sheldon Harnick
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
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We must be willing to say what the Bible says.
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You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
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You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.
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You love as well as you are willing to be inconvenienced.
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Everything has a price. It's just what your willing to pay for it.
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There is a big difference in wanting to and willing to.
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I had to prepare physically every day, and I didn't leave many scraps for the writers
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...He was just scraps of words and dislocated phrases.
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We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.
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