Richard Rogers Quotes
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The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
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I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.
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In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government will help them out.
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I am not a party person.
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Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.
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I had seen a Pfizer's pilot plant in 1965 and decided that, 'I'll build a Pfizer.' If not Pfizer, I have built Dr Reddy's, which is no less respectable.
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I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.
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I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.
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I've been singing since I was born. It's something I do everywhere I go. In the shower, walking down the street. I don't need any impetus to do it. I just sing.
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America is about choices, including those to live certain lifestyles.
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And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.
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Rape is an outrage that cannot be tolerated in a civilized society. Yet feminism, which has waged a crusade for rape to be taken more seriously, has put young women in danger by hiding the truth about sex from them.
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Co-sponsoring a bill is fairly easy, like a group project which you work on with others.
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If you think the products don't match what you want from a product, don't buy it.
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I had no fashion sense when I started out.
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Two new workers are being added to the population for every one job that is created.
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I've always been happy playing in Kansas City.
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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them.
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One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so; for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed.
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As a kitten does what all other kittens do, so a child wants to do what other children do, with a wanting that is as powerful as it is mindless. Since we human beings have to learn what we do, we have to start out that way, but human mindfulness begins where that wish to be the same leaves off.
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I do not want an echo of myself from my children. I do not want to hear from them merely the reverberation of my own voice.
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I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.
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My mother was very family-oriented. And I do love being with my children.
