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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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 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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Fiction is often a much-needed step back that gives you the distance to see things more clearly; it's very often better at explaining why events happened as opposed to just what happened.
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I have a group of cafes and coffee shops that I go to regularly. They usually have an area where I can plug in my computer and have a corner seat where I can do a couple hours of writing or whatever, even the noise of the surrounding people walking by. Those things are the things that stimulate me into writing.
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I've always been, with acting, very hesitant to get myself into situations where I would be accused of nepotism.
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The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.
