"The opening-night audience is mostly friends of the cast and backers of the show, and they cometo applaud their money."

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Source : 1988 In the NewYork Times, 21 Jun.

Al Hirschfeld

#Night Quotes #Opening Quotes #Casts Quotes

“Once you are in the endgame, the moment of truth has arrived... The amount of points that can be gained (and saved) by correct endgame play is enormous, yet often underestimated.”
“The first person I met in the business was David Heyman, who was a producer on Daytrippers and who went on to produce the highly-unsuccessful Harry Potter series.”

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“I was always involved in low level motor clubs, competitions and with the Vintage Auto Association, and I believe this really helped me on my way.”
“We must live as we think, otherwise we shall end up by thinking as we have lived.”
“This is hurting me a lot more than itâ€™s hurting you," he said. It was his standard line, but I knew that this time he was right. Worse than the boil was the stuff that came out of it. What got to me, and got to him even worse, was the stench, which was unbearable, and unlike anything I had come across before. It was, I thought, what evil must smell likeâ€”not an evil person but the wicked ideas that have made him that way. How could a person continue to live with something so rotten inside? And so much of it!”
“I won't eat in a place that has suits of armor.”
“All whispers and echoes from a past that is gone teem into the sleeper's brain, and he is with them, and part of them.”
“Ephemeralization means the ability to do everything with nothing, or leverage, or doing more with less. So, as a businessman, I'm constantly ephemeralizing, figuring out how I can do more and more for less and less.”

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