Stephen Sondheim Quotes
I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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A well-aimed spear is worth three.
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Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered 'Watchmen' to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.
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The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people suspected of a crime.
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If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.
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I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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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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I like to frequent antiques shops and flea markets like the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.
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Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.
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'Egalitarians' who complain about inequality view the wealth of the wealthiest as bad in itself: it disfigures society. They would enact a wealth tax to extirpate the offending wealth.
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I've been fortunate to work with some really smart people. Larry Page is an extremely smart guy, most probably one of the smartest people I've worked with.
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There are no easy solutions for Israel's own governance problems.
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Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
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Overcoming prejudice: the only possible way through love, which creates no graven images.
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I don't think you can erase memory, you can just bury it, and when we're ready to process old traumas they can reveal themselves in unique ways.
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I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it.
