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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I believe in music because it has the power of change.
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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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When I started out, I wanted to be the kind of artist who could play the CMA Music Festival and then turn around and play Bonnaroo, and I've managed to do both.
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I wish Howard Ashman was still alive so I could just meet him and tell him his words are magic. It's so fun to say. He has such great alliteration and paints the most vivid images with his lyrics
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Gandhis idea of swadeshithat local societies should put their own resources and capacities to use to meet their needs as a basic element of freedomis becoming increasingly relevant. We cannot afford to forget that we need self-rule, especially in this world of globalization.
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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.
