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"After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes."
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"One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes."
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"Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and I can see where the setup is and I can tell this is the way to make it."
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"I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me."
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"I glanced at Derek. The boy wonder didn't melt into a pile of goo, although his gaze was glued to Rowena's chest. Avoiding eye contact. Good strategy."
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"It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy."
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"You need to understand that some comedy can have consequences."
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"I left Indiana, and I ain't been back since. I've been doing comedy and paying my bills."
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"There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place."
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"I hate comedy... Yo...-yo bitch."
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"He's sort of a homeless horse, I said.'I'm leaving for the airport in two seconds, and I won't be back for a couple days. You can put the horse in the garage, but I don't want that horse in my apartment.'Who would put a horse in an apartment? That's dumb.'Where's the horse staying now?'My apartment.'I can always count on you to brighten my day, Ranger said. And he disconnected."
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"The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me."
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"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."
Actor
"I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on."
Choice
"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."
People
"My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity."
Mother
"Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other."
Writer
"Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on."
Money
"Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead."
Play
"By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur."
Time
"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."
Music
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