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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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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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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There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.
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I'd met some awfully tough gals in my life, and I find them compelling, if I don't have to socialize with them too much.
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Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
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For 'The Rise of Cobra,' I was dieting more and using protein powder to help supplement my meals. For 'Retaliation,' however, I opted for more natural protein. I had a chicken breast and broccoli meal about five times every day. I also drank plenty of water and made sure I got enough rest.
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When a child is born, the entire Universe has to shift and make room. Another entity capable of free will, and therefore capable of becoming God, has been born.
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I always intended to be light and open. I misjudged the American audience.
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One gal drank a can of floor wax and topped it off with a cup of Clorox, trying to separate herself from the same world he was in.
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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.
