“ And you find some way to surviveAnd you find out you don't have to be happy at all..To be happy you're alive. Brian Yorkey
“ I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reasonBringing something we must learnAnd we are led to those who help us most to grow If we let them and we help them in return. Stephen Schwartz
“ Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous. Stephen King
“ If Patti Lupone was born to play Evita then Madonna was born to play Patti Lupone playing Evita. Buck Bannister
“ Hamlet' dwarfs 'Hamilton' - it dwarfs pretty much everything - but there's a revealing similarity between them. Shakespeare's longest play leaves its audience in the dark about some basic and seemingl… Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter
“ [ELIZA]You and your words flooded my senses, your sentences left me defenseless. You built me palaces out of paragraphs, you built cathedrals. Lin-Manuel Miranda
“ Hamlet' dwarfs 'Hamilton' - it dwarfs pretty much everything - but there's a revealing similarity between them. Shakespeare's longest play leaves its audience in the dark about some basic and seemingl… Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter
“ I chose and my world was shaken, so what? The choice may have been mistaken, the choosing was not. Stephen Sondheim
“ I, on the other hand, interrupt people because my thoughts fly out of my mouth. My handbag's full of rubbish. And I want to do something that matters with my life. Right now I'd like to write plays, s… Alison Larkin
“ [WASHINGTON]It’s alright, you want to fight, you’ve got a hungerI was just like you when I was youngerHead full of fantasies of dyin’ like a martyr?[HAMILTON]Yes[WASHINGTON]Dying is easy, young man. L… Lin-Manuel Miranda
“ Was that me? Yes it was. Was that him? No it wasn't.. Just a trick of the woods! Just a moment, One peculiar passing moment. Must it all be either less or more, Either plain or grand? Is it always 'or… Stephen Sondheim
“ Though it's fearful, Though it's deep, though it's dark And though you may lose the path, Though you may encounter wolves, You can't just act, You have to listen. you can't just act, You have to think… Stephen Sondheim
“ I have no doubt that, had I actually been growing up in the 1930s or 1940s, I would have been grooving to turn-of-the-century beats. Emma Brockes
“ Like a comet pulled from orbit, As it passes a sun. Like a stream that meets a boulder, Halfway through the wood. Who can say if I've been changed for the better? But because I knew you, I have been c… Stephen Schwartz
