I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth - that I hadn't set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if 'The Big Trail' had been a success and launched me as a star.


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I've always had great faith in people.
WAYNE NEWTON
When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
WAYNE NEWTON
I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew th...
WAYNE NEWTON
I played Vegas at the age of 16 years old, in 1959.
WAYNE NEWTON
Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
WAYNE NEWTON
Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was...
WAYNE NEWTON
I love taking chances.
WAYNE NEWTON
I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
WAYNE NEWTON
If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am toda...
WAYNE NEWTON
Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ...
WAYNE NEWTON
I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
WAYNE NEWTON
When I die, I'd like to come back as a cello.
WAYNE NEWTON
You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth.
WAYNE NEWTON
I always try to keep a little bit of space in the year to work with other people. Because I love doi...
WAYNE MCGREGOR
I enjoy my work too much to force-feed myself with pressure.
WAYNE MCGREGOR
Dancers can get to see almost everything now. When I used to go into companies to make a piece, the ...
WAYNE MCGREGOR
Once I'm working on something, I don't do anything else. I'm mono-track.
WAYNE MCGREGOR
Some people are fascinated by what they know, and some are fascinated by what they don't know. I...
WAYNE MCGREGOR
'Entity' is not about science. The process behind it may dictate the nature of the piece, bu...
WAYNE MCGREGOR
I've always been just as interested in making people think as I am in making them feel, and one ...
WAYNE MCGREGOR
If you put yourself in a place where you're having to work at understanding something, then you ...
WAYNE MCGREGOR
Everyone is always telling me that I must be exhausted, but I've learned how to use my time well...
WAYNE MCGREGOR
I listen to music all the time, and I just choose things I like, or things that I've not used be...
WAYNE MCGREGOR
I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get peop...
WAYNE MCGREGOR
With dance and theatre, I think people get very nervous about not knowing the right things. They fee...
WAYNE MCGREGOR
My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that ...
WAYNE MCGREGOR
Unlike a lot of choreographers, I don't always start with the music. I often start with a visual...
WAYNE MCGREGOR
Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
WAYNE MCGREGOR
I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to ...
WAYNE MCGREGOR
But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing...
WAYNE KRAMER
I was a little ahead of him but that didn't matter after awhile.
WAYNE KRAMER
As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We l...
WAYNE KRAMER
It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his...
WAYNE KRAMER
We played together for so long and we got to the point where our styles blended together. Even today...
WAYNE KRAMER
When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our ow...
WAYNE KRAMER