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"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."
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"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."
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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."
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"It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before."
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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
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"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."
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"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
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"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."
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"I think that, you know, this is a different year than most years. We've got to tell the American people that we have to live with less. We have a $13.5 trillion debt. And the only way to do that is an honest campaign with honest people."
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"You can stroke people with words."
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"One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide."
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"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."
Imagination
"I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra."
Acting
"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."
Work
"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
"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."
Service
"The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them."
Country
"Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other."
Writer
"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
"When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't."
Growing up
"There's something inimical about the camera and song."
Music
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