Stephen Sondheim Quotes
One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.
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When I'm on stage, I know exactly where I am. It's not an ego thing or anything like that, but I am more in my body and aware of myself and aware of what I'm doing, and I feel more from that, from sharing the music.
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What is extraordinary about the character of Edna - and I speak as though I am completely outside this character and I am talking to you - I'm, as it were, in the wings, and she's on stage, and every now and then she says something extremely funny, and I stand there and think: 'I wish I'd thought of that.'
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When I'm on stage, I'm quite over the top - I'm quite flamboyant and camp.
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The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.
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We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.
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I'm always up for going back to the stage.
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The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.
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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
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I've been on stage since I was eight.
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I wouldn't mind going half naked on stage, if that is what my role demands.
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I like working on stage because there's something very immediate about it, that interaction with an audience where you immediately hear their reaction, or feel them, whether they're with you.
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I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we've all heard about before.
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If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.
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I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.
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It is unimaginable that anyone, right or left, can aspire to be president without having thought about this. Every candidate has the stage; the Republicans have used it to fuss unproductively over the Common Core. The Democrats have all but refused to speak.
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The early stage of pregnancy for me is quite hard to hide.
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And understand: class differences will not save you.
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It's all right leaping about the stage when you're 20 but when you get to 25 it gets a bit embarrassing
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I've come to realize that the difference in success or failure is not how you look, how you dress, or how you're educated. It's how you think !
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The beauty of mind that Cerullo had from childhood didn’t find an outlet, Greco, and it has all ended up in her face, in her breasts, in her thighs, in her ass, places where it soon fades and it will be as if she had never had it.
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Liberals have a set of folk theories that are fallacious. One of them comes from the Enlightenment, and the assumption is that you are supposed to be logical. They assume all you have to do is tell people the facts and they will reason to the right conclusion. This is utterly ridiculous. Thought is mainly metaphorical. The frames trump all the facts.
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Love. The black hook. The spear singing through the mind.
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One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.
