Peter Hall Quotes
Perhaps, therefore, ideal stage managers not only need to be calm and meticulous professionals who know their craft, but masochists who feel pride in rising above impossible odds.

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To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to them nobody need tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election.
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Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.
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I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!
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Some people collect vintage cars, I collect Birkins. The leather ones are £20,000.
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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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Keeping in touch with the people that matter is important.
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I know politics; I know the media.
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Do I like foreign aid? Sometimes, but not every time. Don't like giving money to our enemies, but I love giving money to Israel.
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I never trusted good-looking boys.
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Most geniuses are weird.
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To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.
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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
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It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
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I do believe that the original sources of all religions should be taught, because with that we will find our similarities, not just our differences. I believe that if Mohammed, Buddha, Jesus, and Moses all got together they would be best of friends because the spiritual basis of all religions is something that builds unity.
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The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.
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I'd kill myself if I was as fat as Marilyn Monroe.
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At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn't expecting it.
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A diet counselor once told me that all overweight people are angry with their mothers and channel their frustrations into overeating. So I guess that means all thin people are happy, calm, and have resolved their Oedipal entanglements.
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Perhaps, therefore, ideal stage managers not only need to be calm and meticulous professionals who know their craft, but masochists who feel pride in rising above impossible odds.