Stephen Sondheim Quotes

Almost all the shows I've been connected with have been extremely well cast. They're playing the show, not just doing the songs.

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• I have played cricket on my own terms.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Own
  • Cricket
  • My Own

• I was an easygoing guy, and school was pretty much people trying to challenge me to a fight, y'know, saying, 'Rambo! Rocky!'

  

  Sage Stallone
  • People
  • Trying
  • School

• I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Me
  • Best
  • Years

• I have experienced a murderer among my friends. Many, many years ago. At close range I have seen the impact of it. I knew the victim, I went to the funeral, I have been to the house, to the specific room where the killing took place, and I was stunned by it. It's such a blow.

  

  Karin Fossum
  • Friends
  • House
  • Years

• I save everything. I have these carefully organized file boxes. Somewhere in there is a section of the 'New York Times' where I wrote 'The Border Guard' in the margin.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Everything
  • New
  • New York

• In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.

  

  Patrick White
  • School
  • Free
  • English

• I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to do that, but I like the more natural styles.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Know
  • Sometimes
  • Drive

• Thankfully, due to the United Kingdom and the commitment of the Westminster government we are able to ensure that money brought in, whether it be from the City of London or from North Sea oil, can be pooled and directed to wherever it is needed most. That is what being in the United Kingdom is all about.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Money
  • City
  • Sea

• All the rappers in rave music are like the sloppy seconds of rappers who couldn't make it.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Music
  • Like
  • Rave

• I want to be in New York. It's the place to be.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Want
  • Place
  • New York

• Mr. Salteena was an elderly man of 42 and was fond of asking peaple to stay with him.

  

  Daisy Ashford

• You can't argue with facts and figures. Either people want it, in which case they pay for it, or it's two guys sitting around at the Plaza having a discussion, which means nothing. I mean, Titanic. I wasn't crazy about the movie. But you know what? I'm gonna shut up, because the people have spoken. End of story!

  

  Gene Klein Kiss
  • People
  • Up
  • Movie

• He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • World
  • Gentleman

• If someone throws you in a pool and you can't swim, you're going to struggle.

  

  Bernard Sumner New Order
  • Struggle
  • Pool

• The youngest boy in an Indian family has a good life. Growing up in a matriarchal family where my Indian mom's culture was dominant, I experienced this first hand.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I cannot support a measure that chooses to protect some women and not others.

  

  Marcia Fudge
  • Women
  • Support

• I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer.

  

  David Mamet
  • Work

• A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

  

  Ludwig Erhard
  • Art

• Of all the songs that I've written since I was 15 or 16, every song is different every song is special, it happens in a different way and I like that.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Different
  • Song
  • Way

• At the heart, it is world music that I do. It's all connections. Ultimately, we're all connected.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • World
  • Music
  • Heart

• The choice that I made was from my best music, for the songs that I knew that the public liked. Then, when I recorded my new songs I found that my old material had not faded, it was still current, the music was good and the songs were great. I sat in my house and listened, got the chills, and I thought, how great is that? It hasn't dated, it hasn't gone anywhere, and it's great.

  

  Tina Turner
  • House
  • Song
  • Choices

• Naming something, putting it on record, in a lyric, feels like affirming people. Ideally, that's what politicians should want to do: to put laws or policies in place that speak to people's experiences, to make them feel heard.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • People
  • Lyric

• I was approached by this guy Chris Renshaw, who had read my book and had read Leigh's book. He wanted to incorporate both characters - he probably felt Leigh wasn't famous enough and he realized Leigh Bowery and I were associated.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Character
  • Book
  • Guy

• Almost all the shows I've been connected with have been extremely well cast. They're playing the show, not just doing the songs.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Song
  • Shows
  • Wells