Stephen Sondheim Quotes
Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
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Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
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If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.
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Some people like having eyes upon them and I don't.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.
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'All-Star Wonder Woman' would get worked on in what is laughably referred to as my 'spare time.' I just ended up with less and less time to devote to it. Eventually, we all realized that it was taking forever, so we just all agreed to hold off on it 'til the time was right to do it properly. Well, I still have a contract; DC never tore it up.
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My grandmother is the person who inspires me the most.
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It'll certainly give the pigeons something to do.
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I have no big career plan. It is better for me that way.
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I laugh about it all the time, but, for whatever reason, a lot of people think that I wear a wig. I get emails and tweets about people commenting on my hair being a wig. It's one of the strangest but most entertaining things I've read about myself online.
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I don't think it's government's job to find health care for people. I think it's the individual's job to find health care.
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No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.
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When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.
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It's just endless what you can learn from a single work of art. You can fill up the crevices of your life, the cracks of your life, the places where the mortar comes out and falls away-you can fill it up with the love of art.
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As an author, you think you know where the good parts and the bad parts are. And then you read to a group of children, and you learn when you're boring them, and you hurry through those sections to get to the parts where they're interested again. You start to get a sense of your story's rhythm and flow.
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The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you he needs you in his.
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I'm a kooky collector and own a couple of hundred guitars.
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Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.
