"I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at me as a true artist than somebody who is just regurgitating other material."

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Source : "'American Idol's' Haley Reinhart Talks New Album, Guest Stars (Exclusive)". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 07, 2012.

Haley Reinhart

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“By some curious mischance, a couple of my plays managed to hit an area where commercial success was feasible. But it's wrong to think I'm a commercial playwright who has somehow ceased his proper function. I have always been the same thing -- which is not a commercial playwright. I'm not after the brass ring.”
“Dog lovers hate to clean out kennels. Horse lovers like cleaning stables.”
“Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.”
“Before my commercial career, I never played for more than an audience of 99 seats somewhere in downtown New York, but occasionally someone would recognize me in the subway and say, "Oh, I saw you in that play, you were really great in that," or "the director was really something." It becomes a conversation. When people spot me on the street from my work in commercials, there's nowhere for the conversation to go. Obviously I'm an actor and I can't.”
“Time moves only forward, never back. We look forward to a moment and then it arrives and an instant later it is gone. Like something on the surface of a river that we reached for but did not touch in time and it carried on, away. You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.”

Source : Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.96, Macmillan
“Behind the visible movement there is another movement, one which cannot be seen, which is very strong, on which the outer movement depends. If this inner movement were not so strong, the outer one would not have any action.”
“Always stand by form against force.”
“I believe that there are forces of light and darkness in the world, and I don't want to be a contributor to the force of darkness.”

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