Stephen Sondheim Quotes
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When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.
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I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.
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The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
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Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
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Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.
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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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I don't try to be sexy, but I do want to look as good as I can.
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I don't feel drawn to lightness, I need something more. I feel that - oh, I hate saying this, it sounds so wanky - but I feel a real urge to give voices to people we don't usually hear from in real life.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.
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I'm a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.
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Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
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To the world,You may be just another girl.But to me,Baby, you are the world.
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I believe marriages should be legally defined as between one man and one woman.
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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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Nobody else in the world can do what we can do. And nobody else is willing to do it for altruistic reasons. I mean, we don't go into places like Iraq to grab their oil or colonize their country. We go there to deliver, as George W. Bush said, the blessings of liberty.
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I was thinking about comedy and how comedy in many ways opens us up to ideas and really being influenced by Richard Pryor and sort of the way he would use comedy to really speak about larger social issues.
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The merit of 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,' then - or its offence, depending where you stood - was not that it was authentic, but that it was credible.
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The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.
