Stephen Schwartz (Stephen Lawrence Schwartz) Quotes
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PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.
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I live alone, so I don't really talk to anyone once I'm home. I have some silent nights.
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
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Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.
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Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
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As Governor, I will demand that Colorado's government serves the taxpayers of Colorado, not special interest groups and government bureaucrats.
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You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.
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If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.
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We are God's creation, and we have a responsibility to keep ourselves at our best.
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I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.
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I can take an opinion, but I don't like when you try and spew hate and contaminate the way other people think. I feel like I'm one of the people that's always made music for the common man. That's why I don't really live my life the way I could. I don't stunt as much as I could stunt, 'cause that's not who my music is for.
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On a movie set, there's so much down time, adjusting the lighting. It gave me time to nap, call my friends, relax, work out. But with TV, there's no break time. None.
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Paul McCartney and The Beatles in general are my idols. And I love Sting. I got to meet Sting. That was really cool. Dustin Hoffman is my favorite actor. Also, I think of Magic Johnson as an idol.
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I've spent my life visiting a handful of people who are very close to me when they've been committed to one hospital or another in New York.
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Critics should think about how the opening weekend audience might want to discover some surprises for themselves.
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I don't take my clothes off in my videos.
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We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.
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What kind of society have we become when children in a great city cannot rely on mothers or fathers for a bowl of cereal in the morning and a brown bag with a sandwich and apple in it for lunch?
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A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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I think it's the actor's job - when you think of being typecast or getting out of the shadow of whatever you've had success in - it's up to you as an actor. The industry will always want to hire you for what you were successful in last and what made money. But you can say no to that and look for other parts.
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Those who don't try never look foolish.
