Harold Prince Quotes
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I'm not coming back to play.
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I have never believed in the impossible.
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I do not often get lonely, and I never get bored.
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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
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Reporters used to ask me the same inane questions year-in and year-out, city-to-city, and it would drive me crazy.
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Love can never be fully explained.
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I grew up playing on unprepared surfaces where your wicket depended on quickly adapting to the bounce. As a kid, I could never differentiate off-spin from leg-spin. All I looked to do was to try to hit the ball before it pitched.
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Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.
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I never do anything out of my comfort zone.
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The one thing I will never do is become pigeonholed.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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I would often take this bus and go to a nearby village where I had hordes of animal friends. I was hardly around four or five years old then. The conductor was so used to seeing me hop on to the bus and get down at the same place, that he never asked any questions. The strangest part is, he never asked for a ticket either!
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Women don't give up things. They don't give up responsibilities. They add new things. They exhaust themselves and still don't give anything up. And. And. And. And. And they do all these other things at the same time, which can be exhausting.
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At times, our circumstances call for us to make critical choices to keep our covenants or to compromise them. Covenants should never be compromised, even when at the moment some circumstances might seem to justify it.
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I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable.
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Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.
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I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.
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I'm going to name a name: Janet Evanovich. She writes the same book over and over, and I read every single one of them and eagerly anticipate them.
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It's not as if there's a noise problem, because they use the same circuits as Formula One.
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The fact is that at different stages of your life, and under the influence of different inspirations, you write different things. The point is not necessarily to find your voice, which grinds out the same sort of thing again and again, but to find a vehicle for people who are far more important than the author: the characters.
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Our judgment will always suspect those weapons that can be used with equal prospect of success on both sides.
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I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.
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So whenever I had some in-between producing time down in my studio I popped a tape in and started working on it. Working a little bit at a time, it actually took almost four years.
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One thing is certain: We can't go back. The musical will never be the same as it was.
