Claude-Michel Schonberg Quotes
Musical theater must adapt to the fact that music is done by people. The new generation will do something different. That is great! That is good.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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My father was an electrical contractor, while I used to deliver video cassettes on a cycle to people in Juhu and Bandra, including celebrities like Mithun Chakraborty. Mithunda remembers me and is very proud of me. He can't believe that the guy who used to come to his house in short pants has become so successful.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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Layering in different patterns will keep things from appearing too studied.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population.
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The young men in the inner city are without guidance, robbing and shooting each other with no remorse... Our system is crazy because we're planning to fail. Everybody needs something to grasp on to.
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'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.
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Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
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Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all.
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In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.
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In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave.
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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.
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To me, the best projects are the ones where you have a pretty good idea of what the spine of it's gonna be, but then all sorts of things happen that you could've never predicted, and those are the magic moments of the films.
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I'm dating myself by saying this, but I was the test audience for 'Space Invaders.' I remember when that was the first game that wasn't a pinball game. I spent a lot of money on 'Space Invaders,' in the form of quarters, of course.
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No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.
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'Up in the Air' may be a glossy production sprinkled with laughter and sex, but it captures the distinctive topography of our Great Recession as vividly as a far more dour Hollywood product of 70 years ago, 'The Grapes of Wrath,' did the vastly different landscape of the Great Depression.
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The church is in the hope business. We, of all people, ought to be known most for our hope because our hope is founded on something deeper than human ability or wishful thinking.
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Musical theater must adapt to the fact that music is done by people. The new generation will do something different. That is great! That is good.
