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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I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
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I've never known a situation in my career where a terrible script turned into a movie that was out of this world or was a success.
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You are built to pull a cart, to lift a heavy load and bear it, to haul up the long slope, and so am I, peasant bodies, earthy, solid shapely dark glazed clay pots that can stand on the fire.
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I never know who's influencing me at any time. I mean, I can take a play by Brecht and adapt it, I'm consciously adapting that play, or, as I've done with the Greek classics, Euripides and Oedipus, and I'm consciously adapting that play. Whether it influences me or not, I think it's the critics, the analysts who have to decide that. Me, I don't feel that I'm under the influence of any such sources.
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Sometimes, challenges and struggles are exactly what we need in our lives...May you welcome every effort, every struggle, and every challenge...May you open your wings and fly!
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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.
