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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I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.
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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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Sometimes with certain writing, you feel like you've got to be literal, hit it hard on the nose, just to get the point across. Good writing is more subversive I think - or good scenes. They are about one thing on the page but you can make it about something completely different.
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It seems like WikiLeaks has better information on Hillary Clinton than she does herself.
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The person who did this to these two needs to pay for it. He will never bring my son back or Sebastian back, but I want justice done.
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Life - give me life until the end, That at the very top of being, The battle-spirit shouting in my blood, Out of the reddest hell of the fight I may be snatched and flung Into the everlasting lull, The immortal, incommunicable dream.
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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.
