Stephen Sondheim Quotes
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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I love the idea of getting up early on Sundays and walking to the market to pick up fresh fruits and vegetables. It's a good way to start my day, and it makes me feel like I've accomplished something before other people are even awake.
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As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.
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People are really paying attention to the comic-book genre, and there's a lot of time and attention being invested in these projects with a wonderful sense of quality control.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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I depend on good editors and a good director.
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I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to playing God, to suddenly produce these fully formed creatures. It is a bit odd. Other aspects you work out more - you rework sentences, you rework imagery. But not characters.
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I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.
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Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous. I just wanted to have mastered the art of sketch comedy.
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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don't have to choose between their health and their livelihood.
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It is true that in France, women put on less things. If they have a necklace, they don't put on earrings; if they have nail polish, they don't put on all their rings and all their bracelets.
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If you see a player out in public having dinner, chances are he's with his boring money manager or some boring rich guy he hopes to design a golf course for.
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Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.
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Whether addressing immediate crises or building long-term foundations of peace, the United Nations will remain committed to solutions that advance the global good.
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The Russians are very much more up and down than the French.
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Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
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I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape into.
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People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance.
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No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
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We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we are brave enough to say that we want it. But we never do that.
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It's not so much do what you like as it is that you like what you do.
