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"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."

"The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."

"There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations."
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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."


"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."


"I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on."


"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."


"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."


"Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on."


"By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur."


"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."
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