Michael Bennett Quotes

#1. From its inception by Michael Bennett, 'Dreamgirls' has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn't change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story.

Bill Condon

#2. Leave someone who hates you as much as you hate yourself.

Michael J. Bennett

#3. If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did ... to act and write. You learn so much from acting. One of our great writers, Alan Bennett, does both supremely well. When I write a story, I tend to speak it aloud as I'm writing it.

Michael Morpurgo

#4. You should never hold yourself accountable for results you don't control, but always for the strength of trying.

Michael Bennett

#5. You read enough books in which people like you are disposable, or are dirt, or are silent, absent, or worthless, and it makes an impact on you. Because art makes the world, because it matters, because it makes us. Or breaks us.

Rebecca Solnit

#6. Flowers wither knowing that you exist.

Timothy Joshua

#7. Tin soldiers and Nixon coming, We're finally on our own. This summer I hear the drumming, Four dead in Ohio.

Neil Young

#8. I probably would have voted against Justice Thomas, and, and, and I've been disappointed by what Justice Roberts has done.

Michael Bennett

#9. How could two people in love so misjudge each other?

Charlaine Harris

#10. I skipped two short steps and walloped the back of his head with an energy-charged swing of the pipe. The street collided with his jaw.

Billy O'Connor

#11. Penny Arcade said: At that time, the DRUG world and the ART world ran through each other. (1971 - 1974)

Legs McNeil

#12. Listen, I, I did vote - I did cast a vote for health care, and I also said that I thought the process was horrible. The status quo before we passed health care was also horrible.

Michael Bennett

#13. We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet. In my view we have nothing to show for it. We haven't invested in our roads, our bridges, our waste-water systems, our sewer systems. We haven't even maintained the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us.

Michael Bennett

#14. I want to be around for a long time. I want this to be a career. I want to sing like Tony Bennett. I want to be an old man and I want to go through all the ups and downs and I wanna still love what I do.

Michael Buble

#15. Get a dog (cats are an acceptable substitute, but it's not exactly confidence building to have a box of shit in your house).

Michael I. Bennett

#16. If you can tolerate the humiliation and helplessness and admit that you're an out-of-control fuckup, it frees you from expectations that you can't possibly meet, promises you can't keep, and appearances you can't maintain; it liberates you from the ensuring cycle of endless failure.

Michael Bennett

#17. It wasn't time yet. You'll find it again, if you look hard enough.

Lev Grossman

#18. Culture is as crucial as Nature.

Oliver Sacks

#19. I'd love to work with Michael Buble, with Tony Bennett, with Damian Marley, with Andrea Bocelli.

Kat Dahlia

#20. Never prod at woman, unless you must, she will kill you faster than a man and for less reason. Even if she weeps over it after.

Robert Jordan

#21. I'm probably the only one in the world you can name that's worked with Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Ella, Duke, Miles, Dizzy, Ray Charles, Aretha, Michael Jackson, rappers. 'Fly Me to the Moon' was played on the moon by Buzz Aldrin. Sinatra. Paul Simon. Tony Bennett. I'm the only one.

Quincy Jones

#22. Believing in your standards for a square deal, even when there's no way to get it, is what allows you to create boundaries and take independent action.

Michael I. Bennett

#23. One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.

Robert Genn

#24. I think one of the things that we are facing right now is that we've stopped listening to each other in our politics.

Michael Bennett

#25. I found reading Alan Bennett striking because you have this sudden flash of recognition when you read about a boy who has intellectual interests utterly different from his parents.

Michael Gove