Andrew Lloyd Webber Quotes
'The Phantom of the Opera' is the biggest thing I've ever done, bigger even than 'Cats' which, in itself, I never thought we'd top.
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Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No,' though all the world say 'Yes.'
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We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
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Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare state creates at the stroke of the pen. Yet statistical tests of the effects of welfare spending on employment yield erratic results.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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The fact that we're living in a country where 90 percent of the people want further gun laws - to maybe somehow put a dent in some of this insanity that's happening - and yet there's no further legislation taking place, it's very frustrating and upsetting.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I never predicted that I'd be a comedian, but it was something that came so naturally to me. I just felt good doing it.
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I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.
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Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
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To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.
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'The Offending Words and Images, in their natural and ordinary meaning, mean and were understood to mean that I, as the Prime Minister of Singapore and Chairman of GIC, am guilty of criminal misappropriation of the monies paid by Singaporeans to the CPF.'
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I use a little brush only for really small details. Over the years, I've started to use a much larger brush.
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'We believe in Allah, we take the Koran as a sacred book. In our land we broke the power of infidel Rum, in his own land we struck down her Sultan whom men called the Pope, in Malta we slew the Knights, sworn enemies of Islam. Inform your people that we are sent by Allah to geld the evil Turk and raise high the people of the Nile.'
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It's hard for an athlete to quit what he's done his whole life.
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You need to keep on doing things you have never done before in your career. You have to have a go.
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'The Phantom of the Opera' is the biggest thing I've ever done, bigger even than 'Cats' which, in itself, I never thought we'd top.
