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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The conventional wisdom is that authors get only one chance in this world. If your first novel doesn't sell, publishers and bookstores lose interest, and your career stalls, barring an act of God or Oprah.
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One of my really good friends in New York is a musician and looks just like Lindsay Buckingham. We always fancied ourselves the nice Fleetwood Mac.
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I think it's important to have flexibility to work wherever is best for you. I actually encourage people to work at the cafe - or from home or wherever works best for them.
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What is divine? It is simply that which man has not been able to understand. Once you do, it loses its divinity.
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It was bad, but it was some other slightly less piquant flavour of bad.
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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.
