Stephen Sondheim Quotes
It's age. It's a diminution of energy and the worry that there are no new ideas. It's an increasing lack of confidence. I'm not the only one. I've checked with other people.
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I usually decide what to wear in the morning, but sometimes, I'll have a favorite coat or sweater or shoes, and I'll wear them everyday for a week!
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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I couldn't do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady's Malibu Beach party is an idea I have for a movie, too. Yes.
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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I had to read Plato and Kant, and at times I was overwhelmed. But I have always been fearless, and so was Hannah Arendt. She wasn't afraid to speak out when she knew her opinions would not be popular because she believed in the public discourse above all.
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You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
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Looking at the trends that we have gone through as a company, where we started the company, it's all about cloud computing, and we're still cloud computing. And then we went through this space on social. When Facebook came out, that was amazing.
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My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.
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My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.
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I'm just first of all looking for a part that's well written and speaks to me.
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We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'
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I definitely see myself continuing to transition into more acting roles. I'll always be a coach. I'm always going to have a training center, always going to work with guys that are looking for some input and want help. I love commentating, and that's something I can always go back to and enjoy doing.
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In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.
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I like - I love calculus. I love linear algebra, probability and statistics, that kind of stuff. I just really like that.
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I have a personal little routine that I do in my dressing room just to kind of get myself mentally prepared to go on stage, and part of that is a poem that I read to myself.
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Since Walton v. Arizona, 497 U.S., I have acquired new wisdom ...or, to put it more critically, have discarded old ignorance
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I think, generally, British people are more culturally cynical about the things that involve our own country. Especially the royals.
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The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.
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It's age. It's a diminution of energy and the worry that there are no new ideas. It's an increasing lack of confidence. I'm not the only one. I've checked with other people.
