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.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Music
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  • Ego

• 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.'

  

  Barry Humphries
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• When I'm on stage, I'm quite over the top - I'm quite flamboyant and camp.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Stage
  • Top
  • Over

• The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.

  

  Ma Jian
  • World
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  • China

• We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.

  

  Faran Tahir
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• I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Myself
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• I'm always up for going back to the stage.

  

  Taye Diggs
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• The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

  

  Orson Welles
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• Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

  

  W. H. Auden
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• I've been on stage since I was eight.

  

  Hannah Simone
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• I wouldn't mind going half naked on stage, if that is what my role demands.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Mind
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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.

  

  Saffron Burrows
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• I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we've all heard about before.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Pretty
  • Never
  • Look

• If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Bad
  • You
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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.

  

  Randy Newman
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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.

  

  Brown Campbell
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• The early stage of pregnancy for me is quite hard to hide.

  

  Kate Winslet
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• When I got on stage, I felt this bolt of electricity hit me, and it was this shock of, 'This is exactly what I'm supposed to do with my life.'

  

  Rachel Platten
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  • Hit

• I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in terms of their backgrounds, their point of view, their histories, that there's no telling what that message might be.

  

  Martin Mull
  • Thinking
  • Term
  • Point Of View

• We're doing what we want to do. Basically it's just down to the fact that we're all posers. We all want to go out on stage, pose, wear dinky white boots, tight trousers and have all the girls looking at our bollocks. That's us. We like showing off, we're arrogant bastards, it's just like ... over the top.

  

  Rick Savage Def Leppard
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• What-ifs are for fools. We are here because are meant to be.

  

  Robert Farrell Smith

• There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Religion
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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.

  

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