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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Sitting in a room being forced to listen to 'The Chanukah Song' over and over." [on his idea of Hell]
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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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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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Back then, a few doilies and napkins were all that a lot of women had. In the little house where I grew up, the pillowcases my grandmother embroidered were the only things of beauty.
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Many contemporary painters feel that their landscapes come from within and are brought to the surface and given form as a result of various stimuli. The artist's internal world is waiting to be evoked by whatever means the artist finds most productive, and... this world is just as important as the outer, visible world.
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My cage has many rooms.
