Stephen Sondheim Quotes
In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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There's something scary about acting always, because basically you do all this work in a vacuum, and then suddenly there's a lot of money spent making a film, and there's suddenly a camera here, going, 'Right? What are you gonna do?'
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
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I think there are so many phenomenal runners. I grew up watching Cathy Freeman, Kelly Holmes, and Michael Johnson, so I'd say they are my favourites.
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I really want to keep modelling, but it's not my number one goal in life. But it's so fun. I love doing it; it's just that - it's not like I just want to be a model when I'm older.
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My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.
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The kind of person who's going to stand on the red carpet and love the attention and have the big grin - I'm just not like that. I want to get in there, do what I've got to do, and get home to my kids.
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Jack Nicklaus is the greatest winner I've ever seen.
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We're not earthly beings any more... we're cosmic beings.
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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
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Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
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God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be a property common to all.
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Actors need to learn when their character is front and center and when it's more in the background.
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I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
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I've always been one of those people – once I start something, I have to get it all out, because it gets me.
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The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of cure.
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That's the beauty of creativity. It comes from the ether. I like to think, sometimes, it's like I haven't written it, it's more like I just reached up and grabbed it from somewhere. That song, 'Song of the Red Rock Mountain,' is one of them. I recorded it and thought, 'Where did that come from?'
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I've been very fortunate in animation - when I get on a project, people tend to keep me, so I have long stays of work rather than bouncing around.
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This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted.
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So it doesn't have to be happy music to be inspiring.
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In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.
