"I take the longest to get ready of anyone. I've been going in two hours before the show every performance."

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Source : "DIVA TALK: Chatting with Wicked's Rue McClanahan Plus News of Cook, Eder and Menzel". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. July 22, 2005.

Rue McClanahan

#Two Quotes #Hours Quotes #Ready Quotes

“An orchestra knows during the first two minutes of the first rehearsal whether or not they are going to enjoy the person on the podium.”

Source : "Star-Spangled Baton?" by Leonard Slatkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2013.
“My culture and my language have the right to exist, and no one has the authority to dismiss that.”

Source : 1994 Speech at the Booker Prize award ceremony, 11 Oct.
“My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.”

Source : "Sergei Prokofiev: Autobiography, Articles, Reminiscences". Book by Sergei Prokofiev, Edited by S. Shlifstein and translated by Rose Prokofieva, p. 7, 1960.
“Art's true purpose is to be human as opposed to some rarefied activity set away from real life. I think art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.”

Source : "The Question Mark Inside". Documentary, October 30, 2009.
“You cannot grow more hours in the day. However, you can make better use of those hours.”
“Young people are thoughtless as a rule.”
“This [the intelligent design movement] isn't really, and never has been, a debate about science, it's about religion and philosophy.”

Source : "Creation, Evolution, & Modern Science: Probing the Headlines that Impact Your Family". Book by Raymond G. Bohlin, 2000.
“Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature.”

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