Andrew Lloyd Webber Quotes
If you just want ten songs to fit somebody else's script, then I'm not really the composer for that.
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
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Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.
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Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.
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You're one of the most natural, great singers I've heard in a long time.
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And I think I have a distinct voice.
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I knew everything in the forest. I had a secret home tree, where I pretty much lived. I also liked rooftops and streetlamps. My parents would get calls saying 'He's out there again.'
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The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands - millions, I should say - of people taking risks, becoming leaders in their community.
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I love unsalted almonds, especially if I'm about to do a photo shoot or compete. There's no mess, and they're so easy to pack in a little Ziploc bag to take with you. It's my number one go-to snack!
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Growing new limbs, copying internal organs like a Xerox machine, exponential increases in computing power, better eyes and ears - I could read stories like this endlessly.
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I wish people could have seen what they called our mansion. They would have been so disappointed, because it was just an old house that we fixed up, and I love the old house.
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I love interpreting other people's music.
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Basically, we used to have a rule at 'Saturday Night Live' that you're not allowed to bring up 'The Simpsons' at the rewrite table, because 'The Simpsons' has done every joke there is. Every week there would be guys going, 'The Simpsons did that.' I go, 'C'mon.' And 'South Park,' too.
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To make sense of bossiness, we need to tease apart two fundamental aspects of social hierarchy that are often lumped together: power and status. Power lies in holding a formal position of authority or controlling important resources. Status involves being respected or admired.
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Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.
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I think the United States has a nasty human-rights record.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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One attribute of the human being is the potential to keep on growing, to keep on developing. And I think there's room in each of us. I hate to hear someone say, oh well, that man or that woman is sixty or seventy or eighty or ninety or a hundred, so he's finished. There's always something that can be transformed on the upward spiral.
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From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but also my colleagues - was that there should not be any documentation, that the performance itself is artwork and there should be no documentation.
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Time was when people used to brag about how old they were - and I am old enough to remember it.
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If you just want ten songs to fit somebody else's script, then I'm not really the composer for that.
