Stephen Sondheim Quotes
I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.
Quotes to Explore
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Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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The script for what would eventually become my first graphic novel, 'Cairo,' sort of came to me in kind of a bolt of lightning within 24 hours of having moved to that city. Just a jumble of characters and narratives and interesting things that I was seeing and experiencing for the first time.
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Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.
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I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?
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There have been periods of my life when I was heavier, like right after high school I definitely gained that freshman 15. It was tough to lose. Ever since then, I know that I can gain weight, so I try to be careful.
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The other advantage is that in conventional manufacturing processes, it takes a long time for a factory to produce an amount of product equal to its own weight. With molecular machines, the time required would be something more like a minute.
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My ritual is cooking. I find it therapeutic. It comes naturally to me. I can read a recipe and won't have to look at it again.
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Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.
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Language usage always has a political context.
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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
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Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.
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We Americans look at the last 300 years of history, and we basically see a world that's getting better and better. The rule of freedom expands. The economy develops. We have risen to become the world's greatest power.
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Ooooh, I love Nashville! It seems like everywhere you walk, there's great music coming out of every wall.
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Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
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A playwright lives in an occupied country… And if you can't live that way you don't stay.
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I love the whole makeup of men - that they never mature and are always just boys.
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It's only because I feel like such a philistine spending all that time in hair and makeup that I started to knit. I used to spend that time studying Italian and French. Then after I had two kids, my brain turned to mush and I took up knitting.
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The United States is committed to a regional order rooted in international rules and norms, including freedom of navigation, and the peaceful resolution of disputes. That's the only way to ensure our common security.
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To be part of what you're singing about is somewhat painful. You've got to climb inside it all.
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Many who had been ahead of their time, had to wait for her in very uncomfortable quarters.
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What I thought I developed all of those years ago was a pattern to understand communication.
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I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.
