42 Quotes by Rupert Holmes

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    To my knowledge, there's never been a duo of a brash American and a polite Brit and it's kind of an interesting dynamic for a comedy team, ... I think Colin and Kevin could always fall back on that if they have to.

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    I've applied to the humor commission for a license to have humor in the book. I haven't been given permission so far. I'm awaiting their verdict.

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    I once had a small role in one of my own plays, a thriller which happened to become a big hit on the West Coast. Its run was extended month after month and thus for over a year I found myself living the life of a stage actor: eight shows a week, with only one day off, a day dedicated solely to recovering from the five-show weekend I'd just turned in.

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    He read it in a ring binder, ... He said he thought the setting was fascinating, but he also liked the co-dependencies of the characters.

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    But thankfully, my first album, Wide Screen, was sort of a critics darling - everyone raved about it, but no one bought it. They only manufactured 10,000 copies; I wasnt even in the running for failure!

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    Kipling said that Success and Failure are both imposters, and we should all listen to Kipling, if only because none of us are likely to know anybody else named Rudyard. But having been bitten in my life by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

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    Yes, I like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain. I'm not much into health food, I am into Champagne.

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    If you like making love at midnight in the dunes of the cape, you're the love that I've looked for, come with me and escape.

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