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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."
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"I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?"
"What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself."
"I was brought up in Scotland and have always been a country person, although the town means a great deal to me, too."
"A multi-polar world can not exist without recognising the status and participation of developing countries."
"I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much."
"I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness."
"There were a number of referendums in '98 that most of the things I voted for passed. That's very satisfying when you feel that most of the country is in step with your views."
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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."
"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."
"If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it."
"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."
"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."
"By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur."
"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."
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