Cameron Mackintosh Quotes
I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don't know what that would have done to me. But instead, I had to scrape a living for years. And my first show, which opened in 1969, lost over £45,000, an absolute fortune then.
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With a first season, you never really know how viewers or the network are going to react to a show.
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I'm a bit of a 'Throny,' as I think the 'Game of Thrones' fans refer to themselves.
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I met Arthur Ashe a few times. I know how important education was to him.
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I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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In Holy Cross, I came to like school, to like studying in a way I had never done before.
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One of my thoughts on the back nine was 'I don't know how Tiger has won 14 of these things,' I couldn't feel my legs on the back nine.
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I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.
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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way.
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In the streets, they're very nice. On Twitter, there are people who love to hate me. Sometimes people get mean. I tend to answer like, 'Careful now, know who you're dealing with...' They're like, 'I'm sorry! Don't send the Lord of Light after me!' It's fun to play with that.
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I know the fact that I was born means I have to die, so my only aim is to reach out and help someone along the way.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.
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Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.
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Know or listen to those who know.
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I know what I've done, and I know who I am.
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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'
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If man ever comes to perfect equilibrium with the environment, we'll all be redundant, perhaps because you won't need art or letters.
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My character should not be ordinary, cliched, and if I feel that it's difficult to do this character, I take up that challenge to get into his character.
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When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band.
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I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don't know what that would have done to me. But instead, I had to scrape a living for years. And my first show, which opened in 1969, lost over £45,000, an absolute fortune then.
