Stephen Sondheim Quotes
You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.
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A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.
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You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.
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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
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I've been cutting my hair ever since college. I try to do that whenever it gets rough. I'm not too cheap to go the barber shop, but I mostly try to do that by myself. I try to keep my skills sharp.
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Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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A little recognition is not a bad thing because it means people appreciate your work. The only problem is when you can't walk down the street or have a meal without people looking at you. I want to be the one looking at people.
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I don't want to compare myself to somebody like Fitzgerald or Hemingway, but I feel like, for some writers, going to a certain city, a certain place, is what kickstarts your imaginative process.
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When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't speak French. But suddenly everyone could speak English because he was so cute.
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Please write music like Wagner, only louder.
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Now that Sacramento is building an arena downtown, they're the only one not in an urban core. The only one. It's really not good business. It's nothing against Auburn Hills, Oakland County or L. Brooks Patterson. An arena in the middle of a field is not an ideal thing.
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Cricket pays well, so a lot of people are naturally drawn towards the game. But to carve a niche in non-cricket sports is not easy. So state governments need to be proactive. Indians need to be made aware of the power of an Olympic medal. It should be treated at par with an Oscars or a Nobel Prize.
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A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.
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No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real, and it comes from the very nature of what judges do.
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Fight scenes are hard, no matter what you do. You're trying to make it look like you're hurting someone without hurting them. It doesn't matter how big and strong the guy is that you're fighting or how small and feeble someone is that you're fighting. You don't want to hurt them. You're working with them.
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In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.
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When I took my shirt off against Caen, everybody asked what these new tattoos were. I had 15 removable tattoos on my body; they are the names of real people who are suffering from hunger in the world.
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Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
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Television itself is an intimate medium. It's in your house. You're visiting with these people... Not everybody's going to like it, just like not everybody likes everybody on the playground. I mean, that's life - especially if your job is to just go out there and be yourself.
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If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.
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You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.
