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.
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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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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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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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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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What do folk always say about Arsenal? They can pass you to death.
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I find acting slightly nerve racking, but I like the challenge.
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No city owns me, you know what I'm saying? I'm from New York, but no city owns me. Nobody can bottle up my sound and box me in. Yes, I am a rapper, but am I a New York rapper? No. I am from New York, I love New York to death, but I will not conform myself to one place, no.
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Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.
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It was one thing to hide away from the world. It was quite another to discover the world didn't miss you when you were gone.
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Happiness comes from you. No one else can make you happy. You make you happy.
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I like to think that each book I start is a completely new departure But I’ve learned that whatever you do, readers will have no difficulty assimilating it into what you’ve done before.
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I do a lot of things wrong. I lose my temper, and I hate waiting in line, but do I take drugs? No. Do I run around deploring the world? No. I'm just not into it. I was brought up that way.
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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.
