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"Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father."
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"My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel."
"I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress."
"I was surprised by how much I like being a father; surprised at what a decent father I am, because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to dump my selfishness."
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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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