Peter Stone Quotes
Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances.
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The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the 'New York Times Magazine,' is one of the best books I've read.
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New York City has no need to move on from 9/11 because, in a sense, it moved on days after, moments after.
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If I have to go to New York or something, I'll bring my books and read and do homework. It's not really a big deal.
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New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.
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Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
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I spent the first five years of my life in Punjab, India, and then moved to New York.
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New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.
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When I first got to New York, all I did was musicals. After a few years I had to make a conscious choice to close the door on musicals, because I was getting pigeon-holed as a musical theater performer.
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My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.
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It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.
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I came to the U.S. in 1994 to learn English and go to business school, but I took only a few business courses at the State University of New York at Albany and didn't finish.
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New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.
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We're going to restructure the state government into a government that's responsive to the needs of New York state taxpayers.
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A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination.
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I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them.
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I go to the hamam and put henna on my skin and hair. Even when I go to New York, I let the shower run hot to create a steam hamam at my hotel. But when I finish with the bath, I put on expensive French creams.
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There's more people to ignore in New York or Boston than there are in Milwaukee, but I would still ignore them, probably.
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Remove all the traffic lights, yellow lines, one-way systems and road markings, and let blissful anarchy prevail. I imagine it would produce a kind of harmony.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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My Safari bookmarks only sync intermittently across my Apple devices. Unlike Amazon's Kindle app for Apple products, the company's iBooks doesn't remember where I left off unless I set a bookmark.
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In 1978, Elizabeth Blackburn, working with Joe Gall, identified the DNA sequence of telomeres. Every time a cell divides, it gets shorter. But telomeres usually don't. So there must be something happening to the telomeres to keep their length in equilibrium.
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I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it's so silly.
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People always ask me who my role models are and who I want to be like, and I don't wanna be like anybody; I wanna be me. I look up to a lot of people, and they have had great influences on me, but I wanna be original and different.
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Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances.
