Andrew Lloyd Webber Quotes
I'm a composer, and therefore I know when I've written a good tune. When you've written a good song is when you know that the lyric is completely coalesced with the song.
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
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It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
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When we come to understand nature, we are touching the most deep and most important parts of ourself.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.
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It's not part of my ambition to become fabulously rich. My plan was always to make my pictures, and hopefully people would buy them, and then I'd buy a studio, buy a house, help friends out, do bits and bobs - but I've no idea after that.
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If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we're a weird cult that spends 11 months living frugally and four crazy weeks buying tons of stuff we don't need. It wouldn't be entirely wrong, either.
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I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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I'm a runner first before anything else.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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Coffee shops are everywhere, especially in Los Angeles, chock full of sad sacks desperate to make sure their screenplays make it into the right hands... or any hands, for that matter. The one thing that makes a coffee shop truly great, though, is charm.
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I feel like maybe I'm part of that generation that became more of a gamer than a video consumer. It's always been something I've done with my spare time. If I had three hours on a Friday night, I'm not out partying. I'm probably playing video games.
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There's always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I've attended, especially thinking back to the restaurants I worked in. I remember a Christmas party in which we all got free T-shirts with the restaurant on the front and our names on the back.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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I had novels to write, so I wrote them.
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The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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The more time we invest imitating others, the less that's available to discover and be ourselves.
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I did make a solo album in my house when I was there. And because I was just afraid of flying, I wouldn't promote it, and I wouldn't tour. Actually, it wasn't a very good album anyway - it got buried underneath the pits of Hell, I suppose.
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Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.
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You can't write just anything. Your story needs structure.
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I find OOP methodologically wrong. It starts with classes. It is as if mathematicians would start with axioms. You do not start with axioms - you start with proofs. Only when you have found a bunch of related proofs, can you come up with axioms. You end with axioms. The same thing is true in programming: you have to start with interesting algorithms. Only when you understand them well, can you come up with an interface that will let them work.
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I'm a composer, and therefore I know when I've written a good tune. When you've written a good song is when you know that the lyric is completely coalesced with the song.
