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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I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.
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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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I was in New York doing musicals in the theater and on Broadway before 'Orange,' so people always ask, 'Are you ever going to get to sing? Does she even sing?' But people who know me know I actually do sing.
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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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I thought law school was more like the guillotine. I didn't really think I would make it; I just thought this is one of the few ways to potentially get respect, to go to law school.
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Don't do anything to stop a woman from flying; let fate take its course.
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I've tried several diets over the past couple of years – not because I need to lose weight, but because my pants are trying to cut me in two.
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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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It would be incredible to work with Stanley Kubrick and go back in time.
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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.
