Andrew Lloyd Webber Quotes

I'm alive. I have my music; I have my children. I am the luckiest man.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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• I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Time
  • Kind
  • Never

• My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • She
  • Mother
  • Mom

• I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.

  

  K. Flay
  • Different
  • Important
  • Think

• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

  

  Florence King
  • Time
  • World
  • Mind

• Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Religious
  • Internet
  • Now

• But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Me
  • Now
  • Blonde

• I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Children
  • Power
  • Society

• Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Knowledge

• I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Kids
  • Pleasing
  • Fired

• For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • God
  • Respect

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to do the typical sitcom-type humor. I'd want to do stuff like go bowling with pineapples.

  

  Harland Williams
  • People
  • Humor
  • Explore

• I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Women
  • Why
  • May

• I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • History
  • Learning
  • Best

• It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • People
  • Important
  • Where

• I do not have any pets. We travel too much.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Travel
  • Too Much
  • Pets

• Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Great
  • American
  • First

• Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical. Reading it uncritically, without understanding the cultural and historical setting of the text, leaves us forced to accept scientific and sociological norms of the ancient Near East from 3,000 years ago.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Light
  • Reading
  • Learning

• I left Britain in the mid-1990s when TV was going down the cundy - another good Dundee word - because I wanted a film career. But as I get older, I find myself being drawn back to my roots, and I'm loving it.

  

  Charlie Cox
  • Good
  • Career

• I had somebody say to me once, 'You can't make the kind of music you're making and call yourself a feminist.' The door was slammed on them swiftly after that.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Music
  • Door
  • Feminist

• Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Children
  • Society
  • Sufferings

• My favorite Asimov works were the 'Foundation' books because the concept, at the time, was crazy, but psycho-history has now turned out to be an actual real thing. You can predict the actions of large groups of people once you understand, for lack of a better way to put it, their way of existing and their prejudices.

  

  Laeta Kalogridis
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• I just like being able to spend time with my family.

  

  Paula Creamer
  • Time
  • Family

• I'm alive. I have my music; I have my children. I am the luckiest man.

  

  Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • Music
  • Children