Mitch Leigh famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I think if you see that no one is going to laugh at you for it, I think the concept of living nicely will be infectious. I believe there is room for the absence of cynicism.
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To call somebody a Jewish composer is obviously redundant.
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I was in the army, and I had given up the thought of being a composer.
-- Mitch Leigh
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Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.
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I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?
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A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
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Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.
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I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.
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She frowned."You're not very friendly." I let out a short laugh."What?I'm not friendly to a ghost who floats into my house and starts touching me?Well,excuse my rudeness but this is a little disturbing.
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It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.
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My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.
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I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.
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At around 19 I realized that I really didn't have any skills other than making people laugh, so I should probably pursue it full-time.
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