Harold Prince Quotes
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.
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I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
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Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.
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Well, I didn't really have a plan. I just wanted a hit.
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Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.
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I want to be in 'Glee', but I'm told I'm not famous enough to be a cameo yet.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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It's so important to me to do the washing, do the Hoovering. I don't ever want to lose contact with that.
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If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.
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I naturally want to be provocative.
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I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.
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I don't want to let the rest of this country drift into the abyss. I want to fight for it.
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I don't like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don't want the hitter to see that something bothers me.
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I don't take part in it the way I used to-the bimbos, the free beers, free drugs, all that. That's still there if you want it, but I don't really seek that out any more.
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American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.
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I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I really wanted to write, so I felt like I was losing my way.
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If strength is measured by intelligence, honesty and depth of character, then yes, strong women are hot as hell.
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I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director.
