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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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"In serving the poor, one serves humanity. In serving mankind, one serves equity. In serving goodness, one serves God. In serving the Creator, one serves himself."
"Every place is now God's temple, and His people can as truly serve Him in their daily employments as in His house. They are to be always "ministering," offering the spiritual sacrifice of prayer and praise, and presenting themselves a "living sacrifice."
"Real accomplishments do virtually nothing to serve me and they do everything to serve others. Anything less is nothing more than a meaningless task dressed in the deceptive finery of accomplishments."
"God cares about those in need, and so should His people."
"To serve means to dedicate or devote yourself fully to a certain course and to please the person you are serving in everything."
"The highest happiness on earth exists in the donation of self for the betterment of others."
"You shouldn't live for yourself alone but you must also learn to live the Christian life."
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"I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on."
"Musicals are plays, but the last collaborator is your audience, so you've got to wait 'til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration."
"If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song."
"Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father."
"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."
"Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it."
"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 I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't."
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