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Rupert Holmes Quotes

I first had the thought about making a musical of 'Edwin Drood' as far back as 1971.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: english
Birth: February 24, 1947

Topics

Thought Back First Far Making About

Soon after I was born, my parents moved to the South Florida area, and I've lived here ever since (with a few years of living in both Portugal and Brazil in my younger days).

Parents Born Living Florida Lived

From time to time there is a move to do a little less in the way of period dramas, but people rebel. Audiences say we want them. There is a big hunger for them. I don't think it's sentimentality or nostalgia, it's often that they are simply the best stories.

Time Best People Think Rebel Want

The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads.

Relationship Construction Connection

I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor.

Matthew Macfadyen

Character Romantic Feel Actor More

I understand more when I travel why people believe that the French are arrogant.

Jean-Michel Jarre

Travel People Believe Why Understand

One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader's need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process.

Leadership Leader Vision Best Need

When I was a little girl, there was no Variety Latino. When I was a little girl, there was no nothing. There were very few roles for people like myself.

Girl Myself People Nothing Latino

I say if you can find somebody you can make music with, that's a special thing, so you should try to keep it going.

Roscoe Mitchell

Music You Find Say Special Try

My father felt that children should make their own way.

Father Children Way Own Make Should

I always knew I'd accomplish something very special - like robbing a bank perhaps.

Accomplish Special Bank Always Knew

It would be, in fact, very ominous if Iraq were to be able to get weapon-usable material, hydro-plutonium or highly enriched uranium from abroad.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Get Ominous Would Able Fact Abroad

It's very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

Jordan Peterson

Yourself Learn You Difficult Over

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