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 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
  • New
  • Everything
  • 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

• I did attend a convention with the production company behind 'The Woman' and 'Jug Face,' and I loved it and thought, 'I have to come back, as they are so much fun!' But those tickets are really expensive, and you're buying merchandise, and you want autographed pictures with people, so it's kind of like Disney World.

  

  Lauren Ashley Carter
  • People
  • World
  • Fun

• We are all born as empty vessels which can be shaped by moral values.

  

  Jerry Springer
  • Moral

• I stand firm behind the belief that, for me, songwriting isn't something that I do or command, it happens to me. I can either choose to stop and acknowledge it, or put it off and hope that it won't fade away. 'That Wasn't Me' is no exception - it came together more quickly than any other song I have ever constructed on my own.

  

  Brandi Carlile
  • Together
  • Hope
  • Song

• There's nothing worse than being stuck with a bad song.

  

  Brian Reitzell
  • Bad
  • Song

• Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Great
  • She
  • Business

• I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Victory
  • Adventure
  • Rule

• 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
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