Stephen Sondheim Quotes
When you trance out properly, when you're completely in that world, there is no other world, so there's no conflict.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.
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I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.
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Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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I'm a darned good listener.
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I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
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Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.
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I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.
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The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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The movie 'Vacation' had a whole different ending. They never even got to the amusement park, Wallyworld, at the end of 'Vacation.' The last 20 minutes of the film was entirely different - and bombed so badly that the audience just stopped cold.
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I really love muscle cars. I don't think people might realize that about me. I really want to go to an auto auction and blow my life savings on a Camaro. They have such design around them, such panache.
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If you approach Cannes with a sense of humor, nothing is that bad. You have to take it for what it is; otherwise, it's silly.
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The common denominator is a love of music.
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Plenty of people are raised Catholic and then aren't Catholic anymore, like any religion.
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I actually believed if I behaved myself and if I made straight A's and if I was good enough, I could save my dad's life. And every single time he had a heart attack, I knew what I had done that caused it.
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When you trance out properly, when you're completely in that world, there is no other world, so there's no conflict.
