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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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
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I just feel like, with rappers, there's so much complacency. It's like, 'Oh, I'm a rapper. I'm successful. I make money. That's all that matters.' But there's a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you're aware of it, it's happening.
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When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.
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I'm not out there trying to get press for myself nor am I trying to convince anybody that I'm living any kind of a life. I'm actually trying to convince people: I don't want you to know what I'm living, because it's none of your business.
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My basics are black, white, or neutral, and I'll wear a ton of jewelry or carry a brightly colored bag.
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I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director.
