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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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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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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."

"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."

"After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes."

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

"The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them."

"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."
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