Stephen Sondheim Quotes

Over a period of time it's been driven home to me that I'm not going to be the most popular writer in the world, so I'm always happy when anything in any way is accepted.

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• I can write pretty much anywhere if you give me time and some quiet. The home is not usually the best place because I have four children. It's usually pandemonium around here!

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Time
  • Children
  • Home

• It devolves upon the United States to help to motorize the world.

  

  Walter Chrysler
  • World
  • Help
  • United States

• A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • World
  • Job
  • Vision

• We went out for six weeks a year. We first started in Mexico and we did that for so many years that we finally said we've got to explore and start going globally. And then we started going all over the world.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • World
  • Start
  • Explore

• When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • World
  • Writing
  • Girl

• I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • World
  • Myself
  • Find

• When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • World
  • Love
  • Freedom

• For whatever reason, various outlets and individuals are committed to making the world think that young girls don't talk or care about feminism anymore, that it's totally over. But it's not.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • World
  • Think
  • Care

• Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • Great
  • War

• World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?

  

  L.A. Reid
  • World
  • Music
  • Culture

• When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Home
  • Party
  • Day

• The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Self

• In 2007, my life changed forever. I signed on 'Tashan,' a full-on glamorous masala movie, with two of the hottest and fittest actors around: Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan. And me, rising out of the sea like a Bond girl, wearing nothing but a green bikini. I had nightmares of how my love handles would be on display for the whole world to see.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Life
  • World
  • Love

• In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • World
  • Circumstances
  • Nuclear

• I was living on the wrong side of the tracks in Evanston, Illinois, in a home for boys. We had these Jackson 5 records. I really related to their voices - they were about my age, but they were doing it.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Home
  • Age
  • Doing

• I do practice martial arts, more as a recreational thing, but a lot of my friends have been heavyweight champions the in mixed martial arts world.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • World
  • Friends
  • Practice

• You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a women's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.

  

  O. Henry
  • Women
  • Money
  • Home

• I think if you left grownups to do what they really actually wanted most in the world to do, every single one of them would lie down and take a nap for the rest of their life. I know this because that's what every grownup does as soon as they're alone.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • World
  • Alone

• She must express life, death, happiness, sorrow, love and anger, but above all she must have dignity.

  

  Taheyya Kariokka
  • Life
  • She
  • Death

• There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • May
  • Simple
  • Sometimes

• I don't have any complex plans for playing a character. I think all I try to do is not make too many bad guy faces and not ever try to seem too good. I just try to put it in the middle somewhere.

  

  Billy Campbell
  • Good
  • Character
  • Bad

• Sperat quidem animus : quo eveniat, diis in manu est

  

  Plautus

• Over a period of time it's been driven home to me that I'm not going to be the most popular writer in the world, so I'm always happy when anything in any way is accepted.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • World
  • Home
  • Accepted