"You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them historically have ever been romantic."

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Source : "Hal Prince, ‘Phantom Of The Opera’ Director, Opens Up On The Show’s 25th Anniversary". Interview With Amy Lee, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 30, 2011.

Harold Prince

#Thinking Quotes

“People speaking into handheld devices while they walk down the street and saying to the device, "I'm walking down the street now." People are enslaved. I was just up in the country for a few days last week and it was great: no television, no telephone, no nothing. I walked through the woods, sat around, smoked. And it was lovely. I think the desire to be free has mutated, and we now live in an era when the slaves celebrate their slavery - this whole corporate concept of being part of a "team" at work.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“Fools boast of what they will do. Heroes do it.”
“White wing'd angels meet the child On the vestibule of life.”
“One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.”
“Ronald Reagan wasn't in the establishment of the Republican Party either, nor was Richard Nixon.”
“My grandfather and my father disagreed about music, not least of all because my dad wanted to improvise. It wasn't just that he wanted to play different music; it was just that he came off the dots.”
“I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.”
“The United States is like a big company, and we need a CEO to run it.”

Source : "Why David Siegel Told His Employees to Vote for Romney". Interview with Susan Berfield, www.bloomberg.com. October 11, 2012.

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