Harold Prince Quotes
Lyrics can't do what they do - or should do - when you're creating a musical with rock lyrics. There's plenty of room for rock musicals, just not all rock musicals.
Quotes to Explore
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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In Yellowstone National Park, there are more 'do not feed the animals' signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.
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Stuffed vine leaves tend to burn and/or stick when you cook them. To avoid this, use a heavy based pan lined with a few layers of second-rate leaves.
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Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.
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Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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Every time you make a guess of what a judge is going to do... you're wrong, so I try to stay away from that.
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The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.
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When I lived in Egypt, we always wore kaftans. I had cashmere kaftans from Halston. You put on a kaftan in your backyard, and it's like you're in Ibiza.
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You can't get more for less. You get what you pay for.
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Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.
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Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
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You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.
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It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.
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If you bet on Microsoft, you are not going to ask anymore, 'Hey, where is the innovation?' The challenge going forward is how do we keep up with it.
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When you work with somebody, either the puzzle piece fits, or it doesn't.
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Elvis is the king of rock and roll, who made white kids shake there shackle.
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One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.
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There is an indolence in griefWhich will not even seek relief. What is the toil, or care, or pain,The human heart cannot sustain?Enough if struggling can createA change or colour in our fate;But where's the spirit that can copeWith listless suffering, when hope,The last of misery's allies,Sickens of its sweet self, and dies.
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Local markets for literary fiction remain underdeveloped; the metropolis often holds out the only real possibility of a professional writing career.
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Lyrics can't do what they do - or should do - when you're creating a musical with rock lyrics. There's plenty of room for rock musicals, just not all rock musicals.
