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Joe Mantello Quotes

Is it perfect? Absolutely not! But there was an audience for 'Wicked,' and our producers were smart enough to reach that audience.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: December 27, 1962

Topics

Smart Reach Enough Perfect Audience

A lot of times, us within the industry, we can put this bubble around ourselves and create what a show is supposed to look like and sound like, and we're seeing so much content. The best compliment is, 'I finally found something to watch with my family,' or, 'This is how I really feel, and I can't believe they're showing this on television.'

Jerrod Carmichael

Family Best Believe Feel Look

The celebrated film critic Pauline Kael once wrote that movies function as escape pods, portals to parallel universes that can be radically different from emotional norms and societal conditioning of our own. What she meant was they parceled out freedom, allowing viewers to lose their selves in an effort to find greater connection to the self.

Freedom Effort Self Connection Lose

The most important thing I can say is to make music that moves you. Don't try and chase what's on the radio or what you think people want to hear.

Music People Think You I Can Want

Jon Tester's priorities are with the liberal, extreme minority of Democrats in the Senate unwilling to compromise. He does not have Montana's best interests in mind. He has failed to represent Montanans.

Best Mind Compromise Priorities He

China cannot pull in the best and brightest from all over the world. It's an ethnically defined nation, the opposite of an immigrant nation. You don't see a lot of American engineers trying to be Chinese citizens.

Best World American Trying You See

I love animals, but I don't want to talk to them. I'd rather be able to talk to other people on other continents and understand them.

Love People Want Understand Talk

What comes to me always is a character, a scene, a moment. That's going to be the beginning. Then, as I write, I begin to perceive an ending. I begin to see a destination, although sometimes that changes. And then, of course, there's the whole middle section looming.

Character Moment Beginning Me Ending

I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21.

Joshua Lederberg

Work Decisions Done Young Personal

I used to do drugs, but don't tell anyone or it will ruin my image.

Will Image Tell Ruin Used Anyone

In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.

Augusto Roa Bastos

Man Moments Humanity Always Point

Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most messed-up children - the way you'd ache and love a screwed-up rebel daughter in juvenile hall.

Love Daughter God Children Think

I am as hungry now as I was when I began in the sport. If anything, I am probably a bit hungrier. It is because I know there are fewer tomorrows than yesterdays.

I Am Know Now Hungry Anything Than

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