Stephen Sondheim Quotes
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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
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Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
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I've never worked in advertising - my experience was as an editorial designer for magazines - but you could say, in the bigger picture, that magazines are vehicles for colour advertising.
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It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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Everything I have in life comes from Knots Landing.
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Sometimes when you've got too much money you lose your imagination.
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Mummy, Bea and I call ourselves 'the Tripod' - they are my best friends in the world.
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People are going to paying attention to him whether they love him or hate him. So I think Tiger is a huge focus point on a stage that is as little as golf.
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Dream and Ne-Yo understand what women go through, what we feel, what we talk about, what we're scared of, and I think that their records show that clearly as well.
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Religion wasn't imposed on me. I dabbled with faith, and I explored religion quite thoroughly.
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All we have to do is find something we love doing each day, surround ourselves with like-minded people, and put all of our effort into that one thing at all times.
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I'm just kind of in love with Kathy Bates. And Sarah Paulson.
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The fact of the matter is that if we were going to do anything about Gaddafi, it should have been at the beginning. And by fooling around like this as long as we have, we have wasted an opportunity that would have gotten rid of him.
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I decided to design and build my own stereo amplifier system at age 13.
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I actually don't DVR. I don't even know if I know how to use it!
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As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
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Mistakes show us what we need to learn.
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I pour my blood, sweat, and tears into a movie. What I always look for is a message and a social consciousness: a relevance to what's happening in our world.
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If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.
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In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the fantasies which hovered about the slumbering souls of the daughters of Delos.
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Comedians don`t get Oscars, so I gave up on that a long time ago. And I can`t really speak about the Oscar-worthiness of my own performance.
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Everything depends upon execution; having just a vision is no solution.
