Stephen Sondheim Quotes
I don't like the word 'career'. When somebody says to me, 'oh, you've had such a wonderful career', I think, 'career - that's after you're dead.' I just don't think that way.
Quotes to Explore
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If you were my friend, I love you unconditionally. I like you the same way I like everyone else that's around me.
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There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She's just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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I'm putting myself out there in a way I don't know if I ever have before.
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When 'Romeo and Juliet' came along, I fell in love with the way that it was written and how innocent and vulnerable it was and how different it was from 'True Grit.' I really liked that.
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I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way.
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I'm a huge hip-hop fan from way back in the day.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
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For me, my country comes first. Nothing else matters but my country. I always felt that the best way to express your patriotism is to spread love, and that's all I ever tried to do through my work and my cinema.
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I love crop tops and love the way Taylor Swift teams them. Her style is relaxed; I can relate to it.
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I like to reinvent with each project, in any which way possible.
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For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out.
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What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.
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It was only through getting interested in more out-there and avant-garde forms that the musical suddenly seemed like such a wonderful genre to me.
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Texting is a lot like an answering machine. If you don't want to talk to somebody, it's like screening your calls. To me, it's a way of communication, but not one that I favor.
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The best way to send information is to wrap it up in a person.
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If you can accept your differentness and learn to love it and encourage it, then you can be someone wonderful.
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Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
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None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.
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If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.
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If you've got the platform and the ability to make a difference, then this goes beyond 'should' and reaches the level of 'must.' You must make a difference or you squander the opportunity. Wasting the opportunity both degrades your own ability to contribute and, more urgently, takes something away from the rest of us.
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For whatever reason, the success still blows my mind - that I'm able to talk to people about the music I've written. I always felt like there was something there because you don't put out music unless you have a sense that people will maybe like what you're doing or you're standing for something artistically. I don't mess with that. It's more about just music and trying to keep the integrity, I guess.
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I don't like the word 'career'. When somebody says to me, 'oh, you've had such a wonderful career', I think, 'career - that's after you're dead.' I just don't think that way.
