Stephen Sondheim Quotes
The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.
Stephen Sondheim
Quotes to Explore
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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.
L'Wren Scott
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I don't try to be sexy, but I do want to look as good as I can.
Laura Wasser
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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.
Kate Dickie
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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.
Imtiaz Ali
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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.
A. S. Byatt
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I'm a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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True confession time: I never know where a book is going. I get a gut feeling the story is there, then pursue it with the enthusiasm of a hunting tiger on a trail. If I knew where I was going, I'd get bored out of my mind and stop writing.
Jane Lindskold
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I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.
Charles Kuralt
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If it has horses and swords in it, it's a fantasy, unless it also has a rocketship in it, in which case it becomes science fiction. The only thing that'll turn a story with a rocketship in it back into fantasy is the Holy Grail.
Debra Doyle
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What the world does not need is another script or television writer.
John Gregory Dunne
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Thank God for both our grandmothers, the Hollands' grandmother was very seminal, and mine was the head of the choir at my church, ... I had to be at church on Thursday, Saturday and Sundays rehearsing. I couldn't do anything else until I got that business taken care of.
Lamont Dozier
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The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.
Stephen Sondheim
