Andrew Lloyd Webber Quotes

It may sound amazing to people today, but Rodgers and Hammerstein were considered by - how can I put it? - the sort of opinion-making tastemakers and everything to be 'off the scale as sentimental.'

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• I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
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• Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

  

  Carl Sandburg
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• I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.

  

  Van Morrison
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• When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!

  

  Rachel Tucker
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• Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.

  

  Sam Harris
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• The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.

  

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• The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.

  

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• People always accused me of not smiling like my rival Olga Korbut, but that was just my personality. When you're balancing on a nine-inch beam, you have to concentrate. But if you look back at the footage, I was always smiling and waving at the crowd after my performances.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
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• Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

  

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• If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.

  

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• The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds.

  

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• We have heard time and time again in the course of our work how talking can help heal the hidden challenges we can't deal with alone.

  

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• I want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ago.

  

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• My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
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• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

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• When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid; you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story. You're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.

  

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• Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.

  

  Sam Graves
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• I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.

  

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• It's hard going out there and not doing what I can to help this team win.

  

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• If you never look just wrong to your contemporaries you will never look just right to posterity - every writer has to try to be, to some extent, sometimes, a law unto himself.

  

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• Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

  

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• I certainly never pictured myself even attending the Academy Awards, much less winning at 56. I very, very happily settled into a theater career. I did more than that, but I let all of my agents and people go. I said, 'I don't want to be promoted in film anymore. I have enough to do in the theater, so I'm just going to carry on.'

  

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• Most of the time, I'm pleased that people don't recognize me. But I don't hate it when they do.

  

  Peter Finch
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• It may sound amazing to people today, but Rodgers and Hammerstein were considered by - how can I put it? - the sort of opinion-making tastemakers and everything to be 'off the scale as sentimental.'

  

  Andrew Lloyd Webber
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