Andrew Lloyd Webber Quotes

Sometimes I get the story wrong, or it's the wrong story, and then things don't work.

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• You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Good
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• People get TV deals by doing something in their grandmother's basement. It is definitely the wave. Everybody is trying to do all that stuff. I mean, the Internet is the only reason that I've gotten work is because I've somehow created a line and people have seen it. And then I've been asked to auditions.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Rules

• I got to work with legendary director Garry Marshall.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Work
  • Director
  • Got

• There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Country

• You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.

  

  Irving Ravetch
  • Up
  • Work
  • Real

• I'm shy. I am. I mean, if I get around, you know, in a room of a bunch of people especially I - you know, I don't know or - it takes me a while to warm up. I'm - and the real me, I'm not as witty as, you know, as the comic Wanda. The comic, she's had time to work on some things.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Work
  • Real
  • Witty

• One of the first things I picked up when I was very, very young out of a record store was work from Peter Saville - the early things he used to do for Factory Records.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Up
  • Work
  • Young

• If you are playing someone living, it is a different type of judgment. However much work you do, it is not a documentary. There will be things you can't get right, and ultimately, you have to take a leap because - you weren't there.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Work
  • Different
  • Judgment

• He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • School
  • Education
  • Door

• I don't feel like I'm grown up. I feel like I'm a kid.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Up
  • Like
  • Feel

• I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Think
  • Vision
  • Politics

• Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • People
  • Work
  • Character

• Our work for human dignity is often lonely, and almost always an uphill climb. At times, our efforts are misunderstood, and we are mistaken for the enemy. There has been a clear erosion of respect for U.N. blue and our impartiality.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Enemy

• There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • World
  • Work
  • Real

• Some people look for a certain structure in their lives that they're comfortable with. People who work hard on the road as truckers, people who work hard using their hands. Then there are people who are fortunate enough to have my life, people who play these characters who embody these qualities.

  

  Adam Beach
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• If I am judged for my work, many myths about me as an autocrat or otherwise would become clearer. I feel false propaganda will not last, and truth will ultimately prevail.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Work
  • Truth
  • Propaganda

• I think a generation ago, dads went to work, they came home, and they had their dinner, had a drink, and then went to bed. I don't know what it was like in your house, but that is how it was in mine. I think it is cool to have the dads in the trenches and doing the real parenting work.

  

  Zach Cregger
  • Work
  • Real
  • Home

• Playing live is everything. Sometimes being on the road is hard, and it's a lot of work, and tiring. From a musical point of view, you improve all the time. Not only that, but you learn how to deal with people and deal with energy in a live setting.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• It ended up being a very good thing, because they finally started writing for the character, and I realized that you have to go to work with a purpose. I learned from the experience and then moved on.

  

  Matthew Ashford
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• All great success and achievement is preceded and accompanied by hard, hard, work. When in doubt, 'try harder.' And if that doesn't work, try harder still!

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Work
  • Great
  • Trying

• Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • Feels
  • Actors
  • Creative

• Whatever is original in my writing comes from my musical apprenticeship. I look for rhythm in words. I imagine words as if they were musical chords. Often I'll write something, read it, and find it musically unsatisfactory. There is a musical imperative in my choice of words.

  

  Francisco "Chico" Buarque de Hollanda
  • Writing
  • Words

• Sometimes I get the story wrong, or it's the wrong story, and then things don't work.

  

  Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • Work