"After 'Urinetown,' 'Avenue Q' and now 'Mormon,' is there an envelope remaining to be pushed?"

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Rich Sommer

#Envelopes Quotes

“To pile Pelion upon Olympus. [Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.]”
“We have the illusion of freedom only because so few ever try to exercise it. Try it sometime. Try to save your home from the highway crowd, or to work a trade without the approval of the goons, or to open a little business without a permit, or to grow a crop without a quota, or to educate your child the way you want to, or to not have a child. We all have the freedom of a balloon floating in a pin factory.”

Source : "From Far Right to Far Left". The New York Times Magazine, (p. 305), Decemebr 6, 1970.
“The show [ Too Much Tuna] changed a lot, actually, which is risky when you get positive critical feedback.”

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“Being in New York and having worked at Time Out New York and then being at Time, living in New York for a long time has helped because I know everybody. And they're the people who call me and give me jobs. So that kind of real networking, which is just living in a place and having jobs where people around you are extremely successful, has helped me tremendously.”

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“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
“Once you change your philosophy, you change your thought pattern. Once you change your thought pattern, you change your - your attitude. Once you change your attitude, it changes your behavior pattern and then you go on into some action. As long as you gotta sit-down philosophy, youâ€™ll have a sit-down thought pattern, and as long as you think that old sit-down thought youâ€™ll be in some kind of sit-down action.”
“I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I'd be dead.”
“Turn back, turn back,thou pretty bride, Within this house thou must not abide. For here do evil things betide.”

Source : Jacob Grimm, Maria Tatar, Wilhelm Grimm, Tracy Dockray (1997). “Grimm's grimmest”, Chronicle Books Llc

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