Stephen Sondheim Quotes
Musicals are — particularly musicals — plays also, but musicals particularly are… the last collaborator is your audience, and so you’ve got to wait ’til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.
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I'm on a lot of airplanes, so I just sip on red wine thinking of stupid ideas and, when I think of it, I wanna make it happen.
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
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I was fascinated by fairies when I was growing up, and I wanted to see one dreadfully.
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Look at the Palestinians with the huge, huge percentage of unemployed. What does that breed? Anyone who's unemployed in the world, you feel there's no meaning and there's a risk that you drift over to something desperate. Yes, we have to tackle the social problems as well.
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The inventory goes down the elevator every night.
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I want to be regarded as the best guy in the world, and I want to beat the best guy in the world.
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I'd taken three years off to live as a normal person, so this was my first time back into it, and it was kind of shocking, but then it was fun.
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Every moment there is creation, every moment destruction. There is no absolute creation, no absolute destruction. Both are movement, and that is eternal.
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I have to believe there's redemption in the darkest of circumstances; otherwise it's too bleak for me.
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I've always been involved with charities and things like that, but when I started communicating with the fans and hearing their stories about the lives they lead, it really made an impact on me.
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If you're not willing to accept the pain real values incur, don't bother going to the trouble of formulating a values statement. You'll be better off without one.
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I am a trained hypnotherapist, yes, but it's more like a guided meditation. Most of the people I take under struggle with stress in their lives and have unbalanced sleeping patterns, so what I do enables my patients to regain energy and peacefulness on a subconscious level which affects their conscious mind.
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You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.
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Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.
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Ow! Have mercy on my little Tulane She's too alive to try to live alone And I know her needs And although she loves me She's gonna try to make it While the poor boy's gone Somebody should tell her to live And I'll understand it And even love her more When I come back home
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Sometimes I believe that the reason I have been able to do such exemplary work on the screen is because this is the only place I can be free, neither censured nor judged.
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And look upon you with ten thousand eyes Till heaven wax'd blind, and till the world were done.
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I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.
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To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.
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The great image lacks shape.
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When I want to play music, you've got to get me on tape or else it goes.
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Musicals are — particularly musicals — plays also, but musicals particularly are… the last collaborator is your audience, and so you’ve got to wait ’til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration.
