Harold Prince Quotes
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
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Because we're in a small town and somewhat isolated from the fast lane of high tech, we've been able to grow and concentrate on our work instead of being distracted by the competition and getting caught up in the soap opera of Silicon Valley.
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It's all about destiny. That's why people look at the zodiac or the I Ching - because there's a certain order to life, and that order has been lived since the beginning of time. No matter what you do, you're going to live inside of it.
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Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.
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I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
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I don't like controversy.
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No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.
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I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'
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It is a false choice to tell Israel that it has to choose between peace on the one hand and security on the other. The United Nations would not ask any other country to make that choice, and it should not ask it of Israel.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.
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Singing is and always will be a part of my life.
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The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.'
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Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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There's not a lot of people expressing anger in the culture. They're expressing a lot of hyper-exaggerated sexuality.
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Humiliating events have a way of capturing the public's imagination. So it has been since antiquity, when gladiators were pitted against each other and the legions of Spartacus were crucified in endless rows on the way to Rome.
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I start with a beat sheet, which is more of an abbreviated outline. It hits all the major plot points. From there, I move to note cards. But the most important part of my process is my inspiration board.
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We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.
