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"When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't."
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"I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else or as smart, or whatever."
"Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star."
"I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere."
"I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!"
"Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl."
"I think from here on it's up to me to prove that I'm growing up and that I have other things to say, but in terms of the show it definitely gave me all of the opportunities I've had so far."
"We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up."
"Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times."
"As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed."
"I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up."
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"The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them."
"I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on."
"When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors."
"One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music."
"You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people."
"One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there."
"Musicals are plays, but the last collaborator is your audience, so you've got to wait 'til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration."
"Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father."
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