Billy Rose quotes
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“Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repainting.”
-- Billy RoseSource : The New York Post, October 26, 1957.
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“It's hard for a fellow to keep a chip on his shoulder if you allow him to take a bow.”
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“Say, it's only a paper moon, Sailing over a cardboard sea, But it wouldn't be make believe, If you believed in me.”
-- Billy RoseSource : "It's Only a Paper Moon" (song) (1933). Cowritten with E. Y. Harburg.
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“Asking me what I think of Oscar (Hammerstein) is like asking me what I think of the Yankees, Man o' War and Strawberry Sundaes.”
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“Without a song the day would never end Without a song the road would never bend When things go wrong a man ain't got a friend Without a song”
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“Me and my shadow Strolling down the avenue Oh, me and my shadow Not a soul to tell our troubles to And when it's twelve o'clock we climb the stairs We never knock 'cause nobody's there Just me and my shadow All alone and feeling blue”
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“If the Russians ever decide to atom bomb us, they're certain to drop an especially large one on the plant in Pleasantville.”
-- Billy Rose
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“Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.”
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“No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.”
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“A bargain is something you don't need at a price you can't resist.”
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“Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.”
Source : Alan Ayckbourn (1988). “The Norman Conquests: A Trilogy of Plays”, p.9, Grove Press
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Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by A.L. Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
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“Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.”
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