Andrew Lloyd Webber Quotes
Where I have come unstuck sometimes has mostly been to do with the stories not being quite right or not connecting with a contemporary audience.
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In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.
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Rick Santorum is the grandson of a coal miner. His dad was the manager of a V.A. hospital.
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No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy.
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I've always been intimidated by the technicalities of taking photos, especially with a film camera - not just a point and shoot.
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The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more; some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.
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When I got out of college, I moved to Seattle because it was the nearest big city and still didn't know if I wanted to be a composer, conductor, singer, actor. I just got day jobs and auditioned and took what came, and the theater doors were the ones opening the most.
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I am not as simple as I look.
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Like the Earth, the Web is a less appealing place than it used to be. If I want attitude and arguing and meanness and profanity and wrong information screamed at me as gospel, I'll get in a time machine and spend Christmas with my family in 1977.
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Facebook is my life.
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People come up to me sometimes and ask for a picture but don't even say hello. They sort of forget that I'm a person.
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And I can relate to that, because I went to an all white school, so I knew what that was like. And it was hard at the time, but anything that's difficult you learn from, don't you?
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Remarkable what a fragile flower romance is. A gun with a nervous operator behind it can spoil the whole thing.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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Foundations are the new Birkin bags. Everyone who is anyone has one. Giving is now chic.
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And the Republican Party especially associates the market with the idea of progress, goodness, family, and points us toward the mall as an answer to all our personal dreams.
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Some of the shoes I have are from movies - I have my workman's boots from 'While You Were Sleeping' - while others are shoes I've had forever.
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In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.
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People in Sweden are very conscious of what people are saying about you.
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If you can't figure out how to make the beginning of your book compelling, you're probably not writing a compelling book.
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I'm always working hard.
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'Troy' is an adaptation of the Trojan War myth in its entirety, not 'The Iliad' alone. 'The Iliad' begins with the quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon over the slave girl Briseis nine years into the war. The equivalent scene occurs halfway through my script.
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Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.
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My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.
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Where I have come unstuck sometimes has mostly been to do with the stories not being quite right or not connecting with a contemporary audience.
