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Harold Prince Quotes

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: producer
Nationality: american
Birth: January 30, 1928

Topics

Criticism Experiences Valuable

I almost feel like sometimes when I'm on location, you miss your home and your family and all that stuff, but it keeps you focused on the work.

Work Family Home Feel You Sometimes

I suppose it's possible that a writer would have feeling for his characters, but I can't see how, because writing is such a meticulous, intricate, technical business. I wish I could say that I love my characters and that frequently they take over the book and run away with the plot and so on. But they don't exist.

Love Business Writing Book Wish Run

The principal event of my childhood was that no adult in my family would tell me who my father was.

Family Father Childhood Me Principal

When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn't want to, because they had no pilots.

Robert M. Gates

Intelligence Building Partner Early

The comics were not only stories to enjoy; for me they were drawings that possessed me.

Me Enjoy Only Stories Comics Were

I graduated with a class of 35 people. We had basically just enough people to actually have a play.

Michelle Monaghan

People Enough Play Class Just Had

My desire for my own sitcom began as a little girl - I spent hours lying on my belly on the shag carpeting getting lost in the world of the '70s sitcom. All I wanted to do was run away to the Brady house, The Partridge Family bus; even the project on 'Good Times' seemed better than Clark, NJ.

Family Good Girl Good Times World

Film isn't a meritocracy; there's no system ensuring the best screenplays get produced. It's a hustle.

Best Hustle System Film Get

I was told that if I wanted to be a leading man in Hollywood, I couldn't possibly be thought of as gay.

Man Thought Gay Hollywood Leading

The 'Apprentice' was tough, tough work. It was all for charity, so I was thankful for the money Donald Trump gave me when I was fired.

Work Thankful Money Me Tough Fired

I think when you are trying to be intimate with people that are so incredibly self-obsessed, it's not going to work. It's not going to be romantic, and it's probably going to be one-sided.

Work Romantic People Think You

One thing that I pride myself on is, everything that I do is completely legit. We go through every channel, and do it the proper way.

Myself Pride Go Way Everything

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