Harold Prince Quotes
There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.
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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
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Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.
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I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.
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I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.
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Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.
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The comedian can put the punchline out there, but it's the audience that receives it - and has to get it.
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My parents always supported me and complimented me on other things, not just my looks. They told me I was capable, that I was smart, that I was creative.
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A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.
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Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
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I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.
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Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.
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BaoHaus is idiosyncratic, creative, and artistic. My restaurant doesn't look like a Taiwanese restaurant.
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Has the smartphone begun to mature, plateau out?
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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
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The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.
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My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We've made three films together and I would never underestimate the impact of a writer.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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These days, I'm always trying to have lots of touches, to be involved, and to play my football for 90 minutes.
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I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.
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In other words: It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not. Or, more bluntly: Wherever I am not is the place where I am myself. Or else, taking the bull by the horns: Anywhere out of the world.
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There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.
