Stephen Sondheim Quotes
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True confidence leaves no room for jealousy. When you know your are great, you have no need to hate.
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Restrooms at gas stations were an unpleasant and shocking surprise; I had never considered the serious drawbacks of such lazily-cleaned rooms. I was completely unable to ignore the filth, and wasted a burst of power to turn the sink, floors and porcelain toilet into sparkling, clean examples of their kind before using the facility. I felt that was a much less judgmental response than simply blowing the place off the face of the Earth, which was also a distinct temptation, especially when the storekeeper overcharged me for a bottle of cold water.
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No one in my writers' room can wear sweatpants.
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In this world, there's even room for quality.
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If you look around the room, and you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.
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I will not have him in my brain;there is no room for anyone else in the cakeshop of agony. it's crowded enough in there already.
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As she left my room I knew I should shut up. But you know when you should shut up because you really should just shut up...but you keep on and on anyway? Well, I had that.
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I'd love to perform with other actors and act with actors, true actors. I would like to be in a movie and have full room for acting.
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This is what God's kingdom is like: a bunch of outcasts and oddballs gathered at a table, not because they are rich or worthy or good, but because they are hungry, because they said yes. And there's always room for more.
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If people can't abide by the confidentiality of the cabinet room, then they should leave the cabinet.
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I see some parallels [with Barack Obama] but I don't see the leadership that this guy [John F.Kennedy] had of other men and women. It's more than being the smartest guy in room.
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In my dorm room, I was a hermit making music, I've always had a sense of urgency that I don't have forever to make this happen.
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I like to stay in a hotel where it's a dome of silence. I can sit in my room and do nothing.
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Yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.
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When things don't work well in the bedroom, they don't work well in the living room either.
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Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room.
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Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.
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I wanted to be a composer before anything else. And my sister was listening to Led Zeppelin in the other room! When I heard that, it was a game-changer.
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The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.
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Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
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My cage has many rooms.
