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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

#became #been #commandments #dances #golden

The night-soil men can see a bird walking in trees. It isn't a bird. It is a woman who has removed her skin and is on her way to drink the blood of her secret enemies. It is a woman who has left her skin i a corner of a house made out of wood. It is a woman who is reasonable and admires honeybees in the hibiscus. ↗

— Jamaica Kincaid

#caribbean #jamaica-kincaid #men

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time. ↗

— Leonard Bernstein

#enough #great #great things #needed #plan

When you come to a fork in the road, take it. ↗

— Yogi Berra

#fork #fork in the road #road #take #you

I try to make films that move people when they are in the theater and make them think only after they leave. ↗

— Claude Berri

#films #i #leave #make #move

I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting. ↗

— Halle Berry

#career #ever #get #i #meaningful

I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen. ↗

— Halle Berry

#anything #i #on-screen #portraying

The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done. ↗

— Mary Frances Berry

#else #need #people #saying #something

I appreciate the people there thinking about me, and I look forward to coming back to Paris for that occasion. ↗

— Raymond Berry

#appreciate #back #coming #forward #i

If I told you the words, you wouldn't believe them anyway. ↗