Stephen Sondheim Quotes
Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.
Quotes to Explore
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I know a lot about Judy Garland. She was born in 1922, and I think she died in '69. When I was little, like, when I was 8, I knew all of her husbands' names.
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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Sharing is the essence of social media.
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With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine.
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But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression that's possible with the instrument.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
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It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
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I love flexing theater muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.
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À quelle heure, s'il vous plaît?
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Far from it be the notion that the Supreme Being is corporeal, having a material form.
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There aren't a lot of supernatural things that I'm scared or super terrified of, but clowns are definitely on that list.
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Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
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I did try to leave, and she came running after me.
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I was very much a latchkey kid. My parents would feel the back of the television to make sure I hadn't been watching it when they were gone, which inevitably I was.
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Our ubiquitous mobile access has made time and location important data points in how businesses can now be built and managed.
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I've always asked to be able to speak and write about injustice and to do it in a way that would encourage people to make things better for everyone.
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A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.
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I'm writing about what's happening to me now. I mean, I had a hip replacement a couple of years ago. I have a song about that. And why wouldn't you? It strikes me that that was a huge event. It's kind of funny and horrible and interesting, so why wouldn't one write about that?
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It's much easier to make people cry than to laugh.
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You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.
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Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.
