Cameron Mackintosh Quotes
Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.
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All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.
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I had long had an instinct about there being a role for me in a creative industry. Maybe I didn't listen to that voice as much earlier on, but when it had become a deafening sound in my head I realised I had to go and explore it.
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As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.
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I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.
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We are like petri dishes, where we can innovate, but we want to do it carefully and thoughtfully.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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I know it's a guy thing to chest bump, but me and my dancers chest bump before hitting the stage. Not too hard though...ouch!
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I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
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Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.
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I will find you there where our low life heightens, Where the door of the Wonder again unbars, Where the old love lures and the old fire whitens, In the Stars behind the stars.
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It is known that the best nations have always been those which concede the greatest amount of liberty to women.
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Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.
