“I've been called over the top. How silly. If you don't go over the top, you can't see what's on the other side.”

—  Jim Steinman

As quoted in "The Bat out of Hell" by Jonathan Karp in The Washington Post (26 January 26 1997) http://www.jimsteinman.com/peterpan.htm

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