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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 still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do 'til I find the voice. Everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world."
"I was on the set when I was five years old with Spencer Tracy. A lot of what I learned growing up in terms of artistry is very clean, very tidy, very organized."
"I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18."
"I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual."
"You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess."
"There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify."
"Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up."
"Chick Corea was a great influence on me, musically, as I was growing up."
"Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that."
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"The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service."
"Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on."
"I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it."
"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."
"If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song."
"Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall."
"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."
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