Andrew Lloyd Webber Quotes
Musicals are very collaborative. Unless you find somebody who wants to do something with you and has equal commitment, it's not going to work.
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.
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People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely forces us to realize that what we are doing isn't working or that our picture of the world is wrong. We fail. So we change.
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But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.
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Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.
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I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.
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Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.
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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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At the end of the day, yes, I'm looking to create a lot of wealth.
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The music industry is very small.
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Manners make the world work. They're not only based on kindness but also efficiency. When people know what to do, the world is smoother. When no one knows what to do, it's chaos.
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Metallica is like the phoenix rising from the ashes. We set everything on fire, and this is what has risen from it - 'St. Anger' being the fire and 'Death Magnetic' being the phoenix.
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When I came out of the Depression, I came out of it with a different point of view as to what constituted success. And that was even just even personal success.
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Musicals are very collaborative. Unless you find somebody who wants to do something with you and has equal commitment, it's not going to work.
