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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."
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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."
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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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"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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