Andrew Lloyd Webber Quotes
Two pieces of advice for young composers: Go away during technical rehearsals. And do not have a back operation.
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I feel like if we're not running, we're basically disrespecting our bodies. When you're running, you're really using your body for what it's meant to do.
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
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I'm kind of proud of myself. I've been able to keep a certain grace about me, even in the times of disgrace and craziness.
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Yes, I'm proud to be indigenous. I'm half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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The future will be better tomorrow.
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I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
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I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.
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I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes.
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I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them.
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I didn't live far from where Leopold and Loeb lived on Chicago's South Side, so I had heard about them as a kid.
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I'm from L.A. I'm an actor. I'm a flake.
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You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.
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When God created man and woman, he was thinking, 'Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being?' And God chose woman. And this is the big evidence that women are powerful.
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When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
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He was an Italian kid traveling in China, and I'm of Italian decent with a fascination for China. So, I always felt this connection to him and lived vicariously through the travels of Marco Polo.
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A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.
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I invest in anything that Bernanke can't destroy, including gold, canned beans, bottled water and flashlight batteries.
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I still take advice from my mum on what clothes look good on me. I used to listen to her a lot more, but I've started to choose my own things from time to time.
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Two pieces of advice for young composers: Go away during technical rehearsals. And do not have a back operation.
