Cameron Mackintosh Quotes
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I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.
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Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky.
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It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
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In the future, officials will feel more pressure to protect the environment. But how to assess the officials' efforts to protect the environment is still a pivotal issue.
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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
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The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.
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In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.
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The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.
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But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.
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People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.
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It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.
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Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
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A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.
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I can honestly say that my abortion was one of the least difficult decisions of my life. I'm not being flippant when I say it took me longer to decide what worktops to have in the kitchen than whether I was prepared to spend the rest of my life being responsible for a further human being.
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Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
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People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me.
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I am going to be contradictory to myself many times for the simple reason that I am trying to bring all the religions to a higher synthesis. Different approaches have to be joined together. I am creating an orchestra.
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You don't have to wear expensive clothes to look good.
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I like to write in coffee shops in countries in which languages I do not speak are spoken. That way, you're surrounded by the buzz of humanity, but you aren't distracted by people's conversations.
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I've learned 90 percent of what I know from watching and listening to actors. A good leading actor is the rock of the show. Their energy and their tone really sets the groundwork for how everything is going to work. I've been lucky to deal with stars who are very giving and generous.
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
