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"I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface."
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"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."


"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."


"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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"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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