Stephen Sondheim Quotes
I like songs that are part of a dramatic texture, and therefore I like the scenes to be active. I wanna follow the story and that means you lean on the actors.
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I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.
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'Straight Outta Compton' is my first biopic, my first period piece, and I got a chance to kind of get out there like some of my idols, you know, like Scorsese, Spielberg, Spike Lee, the guys who came before me. You know, I'm feeling good about it.
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I'm not a big fan of doing what my mother wants me to do, like any daughter.
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The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
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If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
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I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.
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Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time.
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I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
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I don't think that 60-70 percent of working-class white voters would have supported a Muslim ban before Donald Trump said something about a Muslim ban.
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I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
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The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people.
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My first experience with film was through a still camera. I would sit, very much against my will, with my father in the game reserve, watching some elephant or rhino or whatever, through a 400 millimeter lens and wait, and waiting and waiting.
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Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia.
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I like black because it is a vacant space.
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When You and I behind the Veil are past, Oh, but the long, long while the World shall last, Which of our Coming and Departure heeds As the Sea's self should heed a pebble-cast.
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At some point in my life, I wanted to be in a vampire movie.
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I started out as Keith Mitchell. I had done probably about ten years of television work under that name. Then my grandfather passed away in 1984. I wanted to honor him and his name.
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I love seeing live music.
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Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.
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Machida is not a bad guy; he's a victim of the brazilian education system. There are better ways to get electrolytes than drinking piss.
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We were the first to combine pop culture and sports. Second, we have a relentless focus on driving innovation into our product. And third is integrating sustainability into our business model like no one has ever done before, through Parley for the Oceans, to prevent plastic pollution. We’ve done all three of these things earlier than our competitors.
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We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the courage to do so.
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Once you’ve lived a little you will find that whatever you send out into the world comes back to you in one way or another. It may be today, tomorrow, or years from now, but it happens; usually when you least expect it, usually in a form that’s pretty different from the original. Those coincidental moments that change your life seem random at the time but I don’t think they are. At least that’s how it’s worked out in my life. And I know I’m not the only one.
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I like songs that are part of a dramatic texture, and therefore I like the scenes to be active. I wanna follow the story and that means you lean on the actors.
