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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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"President Bush is supporting Arnold but a lot of Republicans are not, because he is actually quite liberal. Karl Rove said if his father wasn't a Nazi, he wouldn't have any credibility with conservatives at all."
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"I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father."
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"To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible."
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"I am blessed to have Mom and Dad."
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"When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad."
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"I'll never forget my father's response when I told him I wanted to be a lawyer. He said, 'If you do this, no man will ever want you.'"
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"I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education."
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"My Mom and Dad did it pretty good, so I know it can work. The foremost thing I would say about working with Robin and Sean is that they were devoted to this project and devoted to their characters. You can't ask for any more from talented actors like that."
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"My dad is a really honest, hardworking, straight guy."
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"We would make songs, and the producers said we should play it for my dad. I was kind of scared, I didn't know what to think cuz we were just joking around."
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"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
"The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them."
Country
"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
"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
"Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure."
Music
"By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur."
Time
"So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work."
Work
"Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other."
Writer
"The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890?"
Art
"I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-largest pipe organ in New York State. I loved all the buttons and the gadgets. I've always been a gadget man."
Man
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