Richard Rodgers I have to laugh to myself. I don’t find it work to write music, because I enjoy it. I’d find an evening of bridge hard work because you have to think like hell, and at the end, you get nothing for it. – Richard Rodgers Bridge Quotes Enjoy Quotes Evening Quotes Hard Quotes Laugh Quotes Music Quotes Write Quotes I would like, if I can, to broaden the possibilities of the musical theater. I think there’s a better ‘Oklahoma!’ someplace, a better ‘West Side Story.’ And I’d like to be mixed up in it. I don’t believe that a writer does something wonderful spontaneously. I believe it’s the result of years of living, of study, reading, his very personality and temperament. At one particular moment, all these come together and the artist ‘expresses’ himself.
Douglas FairbanksJr My father and Mary Pickford were the reigning stars of not just Hollywood but of the world. Well, to bear my father’s name was hard enough, but to work in pictures to boot was pretty foolhardy. In fact, my father was totally against it. He thought I should be off getting a good education and go into some safe profession. – Douglas Fairbanks, Jr
Gustav Mahler It’s not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it. – Gustav Mahler
Jeffrey Wright That period, doing ‘Angels in America’ in ’94 and then filming with ‘Basquiat’ in ’95, those were gateway years for me as an artist. Two gateways, one into the film industry and one into the world of theater, each formative to me in different, equally essential ways. – Jeffrey Wright
Al Horford I’ll continue to take what the defense gives me. That’s the way that I’ve always played. – Al Horford
Nick Cummins Most people travel outside of Australia. They don’t realise what we’ve got. – Nick Cummins
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