Tim Rice Quotes

I must have written 15 lyrics for 'The Lion King,' and only five or six were used. Some were scenes that disappeared, some were earlier versions of songs that didn't work, or else the characters changed.

Tim Rice

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: November 10, 1944

Topics

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The Olympics is an imperfect interregnum, the parade of nations a fantasy about a peace never won. It offers little relief from strife and no harbor from terror.

Jill Lepore

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I fought tooth and nail: I didn't want to learn Hebrew. My Bar Mitzvah came around, and I didn't want to read the Torah portion. I look back with a lot of chagrin about how I behaved.

Jesse Andrews

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Short films don't go too far.

Matthew McGrory

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We tend to see films as artifacts of one mind. The reality of it is, I think, when you come out here and start working, you have to learn pretty quickly that it's a very collaborative process.

Travis Beacham

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My feeling is that when you're managing a baseball team, you have to pick the right people to play and then pray a lot.

Robin Roberts

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Counterpoint is difficult. I have been doing it since the beginning of my career. But it is not just taking any opposite. It is finding the right opposite.

Robert Wilson

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Institutions need a lifetime to realize their potential.

Roshni Nadar

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I ended up being a businessman unwittingly. I wanted to be an academic; I wanted to be like Einstein.

Mo Ibrahim

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It took so much of the tension out of me that my friends and family won't see me on this show.

Jonathan Frid

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Obviously, your family life is the priority, but there's still other stuff you have to get done in a day. I think the way I make it work is by taking care of myself, and that includes fitness and eating right and all those things, but also by being very organized and punctual.

Cindy Crawford

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Like other human institutions, courts and juries are not perfect. One cannot have a system of criminal punishment without accepting the possibility that someone will be punished mistakenly.

Antonin Scalia

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Alas, in 1929 came the Stock Market crash and everything changed and became worrisome. People started practicing conservatism because of financial losses, myself included.

Pola Negri

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