Andrew Lloyd Webber Quotes
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A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.
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I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.
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There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
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I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.
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I have no privacy anymore.
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Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.
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Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.
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After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
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I know what poverty is.
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Those who go along get along.
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Women get scrutinized based on appearance far more than men. And look, I speak from experience here. When I wear a bad outfit on the air, I get viewer e-mail complaining about it. A lot of e-mail. Seriously.
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Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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Part of me loves to control and to exert power, but it's not the best part of me at all. What I am slowly learning is that allowing others to have power too makes us a better organisation - many brains are simply better than one.
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We play fair and we play hard. If we win the game we win, if we lose the game, we lose.
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I have been competing against IBM my whole career. It's a good company, with good management and a good team.
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I started doing comedy with no plan to do voice work. Voice work came as a function of doing comedy and meeting people who eventually develop shows like that. I didn't seek out from an early age to be on cartoons.
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I think that people like getting their money's worth, so it's cool to have a load of bands in a similar genre.
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I'm not a critic, and I never talk about other people's work.
