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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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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It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.
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The joy of just being involved in something, of being part of a big process, just as a human being, it's nice to be part of people who are in the same enterprise, heading for the same goal, rather than, 'Oh this is all about me and my role. The story's about me.'
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Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.
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Whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. Why, when a housefly flaps his wings, a breeze goes round the world; when a speck of dust falls to the ground, the entire planet weighs a little more; and when you stamp your foot, the earth moves slightly off its course. Whenever you laugh, gladness spreads like the ripples in the pond; and whenever you're sad, no one anywhere can be really happy. And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.
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The toughest thing about managing is knowing your personnel and what it can give you under all conditions.
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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.
