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In some situations I was difficult, in odd moments impossible, in rare moments loathsome, but at my best unapproachably great.
Oscar Levant / Pianist
Impossible
Odd
Rare Moments
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My last picture for Warners was Romance on the High Seas. It was Doris Day's first picture; that was before she became a virgin.
Oscar Levant / Pianist
Lasts
Romance
Sea
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You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. (Oscar trying to talk his way out of a speeding ticket)
Oscar Levant / Pianist
Music
Movement
Trying
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[Madame Nhu was] the Sandra Dee of South Vietnam. If I were cast on a desert island with her, I would quickly make friends with the natives.
Oscar Levant / Pianist
Government
Desert
Islands
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A conductor should reconcile himself to the realization that regardless of his approach or temperament the eventual result is the same-the orchestra will hate him.
Oscar Levant / Pianist
Hate
Orchestra
Realization
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When I appeared before the draft board examiner during World War II, he asked me if I thought I could kill. "I don't know about strangers," I replied, "but friends, certainly."
Oscar Levant / Pianist
Friends
War
Boards
World
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