"Some things I cannot change, but 'til I try I'll never know."

-- Stephen Schwartz

#Trying Quotes #Wicked Quotes #Wicked The Musical Quotes

“I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.”
“If you want your energy bills to go up, you should support an ever greater dependence on foreign oil, because the rate of new discoveries is declining as demand in China and India is growing, and the price of oil and thus the price of coal will go sky high.”
“Watching something is nothing like doing it.”
“Television as we have it isn't an art form - it's a piece of furniture that is good for a few things.”
“I won't wear rings and jewelry on the stage because I don't want you looking at my hands. I want you hearing what I'm saying.”
“I think of myself as Rebecca Wells from Lodi Plantation, in Central Louisiana, a girl who was lucky enough to be born into a family that encouraged creativity and didn't call me lazy or nuts when I dressed up in my mother's peignoirs and played the piano, having painted a small sign decorated in glitter that read 'The Piano Fairy Girl.”
“People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while theyâ€™re reflecting too ... Reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes. No beginning and no end. No center and no purpose.”
“By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had taken on the dangerous lustre of a promised city. The rumour had gone out that if you had failed in Detroit you might yet succeed in Seattle - and that if you'd succeeded in Seoul, you could succeed even better in Seattle... Seattle was the coming place. So I joined the line of hopefuls.”

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