Stephen Sondheim Quotes
I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.
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Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down.
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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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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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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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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If elected, I would not be the mere president of a party - I would endeavor to act independent of party domination and should feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.
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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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I would say my career is in a very good place. I'm in a place of a lot of hope for what's next. I see something great, but I'm not quite there.
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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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The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights because of a sleazy personality, or even for having committed a crime. Felons in jail are protected by the First Amendment.
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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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I do things because I enjoy it. That used to be my downfall, but now it's the upside.
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You can say it's like the official block party for the NBA. We have special performances, mini concerts and it's an all day event. There are tons of contests, players come out and it's just an all around good time for the family.
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All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go.
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PICTURE OF LIGHT is luminous and genuinely transcendent.
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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.
