"In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?"

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Source : "Modern Music Masters: Nellie McKay". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 3, 2010.

Nellie McKay

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“I think pre-nups are brilliant. I get very well taken care of.”
“I believe that every character I create is in their own film, that happens to overlap with the main film. There are complete and real characters, even though we only spend only a little time with them. In the approach to what those entities are, that always appeals to an actor. What are they, since they are going to embody this character?”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com
“To me, poetry is a recreation, a renewal of language... The subtlety of what words mean and the fact that you write something and all of a sudden you'll realize that "yes, it reaches out. It meant that, too." Then all of a sudden you'll get a rhyme and the rhyme will throw up a whole new way of looking at things. It's this relationship that you never dreamed of.”
“I have had my different husbands, my families. I am fond of them all and I visit them all. But deep inside me there is the feeling that I belong to show business.”
“He had to keep thinking of them because if he forgot them and did not think of them they might forget about him. And he had to keep hoping.”
“The body moves naturally, automatically, unconsciously, without any personal intervention or awareness. But if we begin to use our faculty of reasoning, our actions become slow and hesitant.”
“He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a saint, or a mahatma or more likely a humbug but he certainly won't make a leader or for that matter a good soldier”
“I'm a draftsperson. And also, I really respond to love.”

Source : "Hilton Als, Constructing Genre". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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