Stephen Sondheim Quotes
Deciding what is to be sung and what is not to be sung is really what writing a musical is about.
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It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
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I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.
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To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
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Your subconscious's goal is to recreate unresolved childhood issues and then hopefully mend them.
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The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects the life of every Indian person in one way or another.
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Dolphins games always have been among the most popular NFL telecasts in England.
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More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.
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I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
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All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.
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When I had dark hair I definitely felt that I was more anonymous.
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When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.
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I have plenty of investments that I wish I'd never made. But the model is to lose money on a lot of investments and then make 1,000X or 10,000X on an investment.
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If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.
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For women to achieve equal representation in leadership roles, it's important that they have the backing of men as well as women.
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Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
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It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.
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To me, the pinnacle of my career is writing for youth. I can die happy: I have succeeded in doing what I have always wanted to do.
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I didn't realize what I was even doing when I started to record music. I was just doing it for fun. I picked up whatever recording gear I could get my hands on and I'd sit there day-in and day-out... experimenting with different sounds and trying to write songs.
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I always see my songs in colors, and I'm often more inspired by movies and photographs than I am by other songs when I write my music. I'm also inspired by fashion, and I want my music to be a visual painting of what's in my mind.
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It's difficult to write anything at the moment, as every week there's a seismic shift in world events.
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Deciding what is to be sung and what is not to be sung is really what writing a musical is about.
