Stephen Sondheim Quotes
I like murder mysteries, the Agatha Christie kinds of things where you know that it's all going to be neatly wound up at the end.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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I will eat disgusting things, but only those with long established culinary traditions.
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Politics is a good thing!
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I prefer to sing in the shower because the acoustics make you sound great, baby.
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When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.
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I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
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America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.
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To each his own, but I just think that we women have a certain body type. As Indian women, we have a beautiful body type. And I believe in the celebration of curves. Whether it's Salma Hayek, Penelope Cruz, Zeenat Aman or Shilpa Shetty, they are very curvaceous and beautiful. I don't know why anyone would want to fight that.
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God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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The girls want to see the rips on your stomach - they like that.
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Paper Moon didn't bring me love.
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I'm not one of these actresses like, 'Okay, where's the camera? Is it here? Is it here?' I don't even ask the questions because I don't really want to know. I like not performing for a camera but giving it my best every single time whether you're close or whether you're far.
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When I sit down to write, I know everything I need to know... I start writing, and within 30 seconds or 60 seconds, I'm watching a movie. I'm not making this stuff up; the characters are acting it out,and I'm just writing it down.
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It's sweet that I don't have to do my laundry.
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Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
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We should be firing bad teachers.
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I try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me.
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I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it's any good.
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I'm an appalling flyer. I get very tense, although I no longer weep uncontrollably for no reason - I just sob if there's turbulence.
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.
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The wait is long, my dream of you does not end.
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I like murder mysteries, the Agatha Christie kinds of things where you know that it's all going to be neatly wound up at the end.
