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"Because I've been on the receiving end of infidelity, I know how much it hurts."


"So that when I came to New York again, it was, I'm not too sure right now, but it was '74 or '75. I went to Miami in '74 and then I came to New York, I think, at the end of '74."


"When West End Girls came out on import, I was a student at Liverpool University. I'd go to a club in Liverpool and it would come on, and I'd be really embarrassed."


"I did end up doing substitute teaching, but there's not a lot of teaching involved in that."


"What I have is a bunch of really hungry, amazingly talented guys that can kick anybody's rear end."
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"Certainly toward the end of the season, you and I could be in a ballpark and they might say the crowd is 30,000, and we could look around and see that there was no more than 10,000."
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"I like the whole package to be good, It's a rarity that that happens, so I end up not working a lot."
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"For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame."


"It's not a bad problem to have because a lot of classic acts are known for one or two songs and in their show they basically hold those songs off until the end and you sit through an hour or so of lesser known material but in our case most of the songs are well known."


"I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime."


"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough."


"If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end."


"Everyone has the right to walk from one end of the city to the other in secure and beautiful spaces. Everybody has the right to go by public transport. Everybody has the right to an unhampered view down their street, not full of railings, signs and rubbish."


"Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?"


"I think you have everyone kind of pulling on the same end of the rope. It's not like you're Robin Williams and everyone else is a deaf mute. It's like - there's plenty of help."


"I like my stuff 'cause I only ever end up with tracks that I really, really like. It always appeals to me."
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"You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel."


"In my mind, it is certainly much nicer to end on a high note rather than on a Stout Pig."


"I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world."


"I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don't have a little list of topics to write about."


"If the audience never understands the plot, it can be counted on to be attentive to the very end."
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"If I'm not moved by what happens at the end of this play, then I've completely failed, and so has the play, and so has our production. And if that's the case then there really isn't any reason to want to do it."


"The scandal happened and I made the best of it. I kind of feel like in the end it was a blessing."


"I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it."
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"It doesn't really exist; it's just basically lots of different stages between the two pieces, and you end up with, like, a third shape that doesn't exist but is suggested to you by the image."
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"Nick and Simon had come to a natural end of their working relationship with Warren, which obviously opened the door for a reunion of the original five."
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"We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins."


"I think the end of last year when we were aware of that transition was for everyone in their own way kind of bittersweet, but it's also what the show's about, one administration ends and another begins."
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"It comes down to something really simple: Can I visualize myself playing those scenes? If that happens, then I know that I will probably end up doing it."


"You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both; but at the end he will be a consecrated thug, but a thug all the same unless interior intentions and a disciplined man are present."
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