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Richard 'Dick' Rodgers: That was really black Sunday for me. Shut out twice. Once because I was too young, once because I was too old.

Lorenz 'Larry' Hart: Make yourself at home. You hungry? You want something to eat? How about some nuts?
Richard 'Dick' Rodgers: Oh, no thanks.
Lorenz 'Larry' Hart: Apples? Oranges?
Richard 'Dick' Rodgers: No.
Lorenz 'Larry' Hart: How about a piece of coffee cake?
Richard 'Dick' Rodgers: No, I don't think so.
Lorenz 'Larry' Hart: Corned beef sandwich? I'll send out and get a corned beef sandwich.
Richard 'Dick' Rodgers: No, thanks very much.
Lorenz 'Larry' Hart: Smoke? Cigar? Light ones? Dark ones?

Richard 'Dick' Rodgers: Believe me, a tune without a lyric is a mighty lonesome thing.

Peggy Lorgan McNeil: [singing] Looking through the window you can see a distant steeple, Not a sign of people, Who wants people?

Herbert Fields: Oh, Dick, Dick! Mr. Kane just phoned.
Lorenz 'Larry' Hart: Mr. Who?
Herbert Fields: Mr. Kane! The Theatre Guild that they want us!
Richard 'Dick' Rodgers: Who wants us?
Herbert Fields: The Theatre Guild! They want us to do a show. The Garrick Gaieties!

Eddie Lorrison Anders: [singing] Spring is here, So blow your job, Throw your job away, Now's the time to trust, To your wanderlust...

Richard 'Dick' Rodgers: Hello, darling. Have you heard the good news? We're a hit! We're in!
Mrs. Hart: But, of course.

Eddie Lorrison Anders: Hi ya, Mom!
Mrs. Hart: Hello, Eddie.
Eddie Lorrison Anders: Have you seen the notices? Oh, they're terrific. Mom, we're a smash!
Mrs. Hart: Well, certainly.

Peggy Lorgan McNeil: [singing] Oh, the wild herd gathers where the moon is full, There's not much buffalo but lots of bull...

Joyce Harmon: Your being in love with me is impossible. Believe me, it is.
Richard 'Dick' Rodgers: Why?
Joyce Harmon: Well, mathematics. I'm 33, you're 20.
Richard 'Dick' Rodgers: What difference does that make?
Joyce Harmon: Dick, when a woman's 33, the days are different, the weeks are different, the months are different. 10 years? That's a century.

Peggy Lorgan McNeil: Now, you've really got me surrounded. A bolted door. A Rodgers and Hart song. What's the next twist to the plot?
Lorenz 'Larry' Hart: Well, that shouldn't be hard to guess. It's the love scene! You know, when the fella tells the girl that she's like a Roman candle, a Greek chorus, an Italian gondola.

Dorothy Feiner: I'm having a birthday party in three weeks in Tarrytown. Would you like to come?
Richard 'Dick' Rodgers: How old?
Dorothy Feiner: 18.
Richard 'Dick' Rodgers: Gee, I don't know. 18 year old girls are pretty old for me.

Richard 'Dick' Rodgers: You've got to pull yourself together. You can't keep running around the world chasing rainbows!

June Allyson: [singing] Thy words are queer, Sir; Unto mine ear, Sir; Yet thou'rt a dear, Sir, to me; Thou could'st woo me...

June Allyson: [singing] Thou swell! Thou witty! Thou sweet! Thou grand! Wouldst kiss me pretty? Wouldst hold my hand? Both thine eyes are cute too; What they do to me, Hear me holler I choose a sweet lollapaloosa in thee...

Judy Garland: Oh, Dorothy, I'm so sorry. Here you two have just started on your honeymoon and I'm trying to Shanghai the groom.

Judy Garland: [singing] The sleepless nights, the daily fights, The quick toboggan when you reach the heights, I miss the kisses and I miss the bites, I wish I were in love again.
Lorenz 'Larry' Hart: The broken dates, the endless waits, The lovely loving and the hateful hates, The conversation with the flying plates, I wish I were in love again...

Judy Garland: [singing] The furtive sigh, the blackened eye, The words, "I'll love you 'til the day I die", The self-deception that believes the lie, I wish I were in love again...

Gene Kelly: Larry's lyrics were gay and clever and witty. But, in them all was the note of sadness. They were and are and will be a source of beauty and pleasure to millions of people.

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