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.
Quotes to Explore
-
Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
-
'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Layering in different patterns will keep things from appearing too studied.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
-
For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
-
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.
-
Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
-
Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
-
Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all.
-
In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.
-
In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave.
-
Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.
-
Back in eighth grade, I'd seen nothing but small-town Georgia when I left the U.S. for the first time and went to Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China.
-
Pointing forward in time, we see in Plato the first detailed formulation in Western thought of themes that would persist and be developed further in the classical philosophical tradition, from Aristotle to Augustine to the Scholastics: that the material world points beyond itself to an eternal source; that things have immutable forms or essences; that the foundation of morality is to be found in this source and in these essences; that human beings have immaterial souls; that all of this is knowable through reason, and that knowing it is the highest end of philosophy and science.
-
When I was at youth theatre and drama school, I never thought people would mistake me for a stand-up.
-
Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries.
-
The very highest is barely known. Then comes that which people know and love, Then that which is feared, Then that which is despised. Who does not trust enough will not be trusted.
-
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.
