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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When you talk about the American League, you think of Fenway. When you talk about the National League, you think of Wrigley and the fan base that they have in Chicago.
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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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It is said that one should not hesitate to correct himself when he has made a mistake. If he corrects himself without the least bit of delay, his mistakes will disappear.
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To love your family, love your work, live your purpose and be unconditionally grateful for every moment of your life... is to succeed at the highest level (in my opinion).
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Divorce is divorce and it's a really tough thing to go through, but I'd love to get married again.
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I had a job when I was 15 working at a supermarket, and I knocked over a stack of plastic coffee cups. In my anger, I threw one at a concrete wall, and it rebounded back into my head and cut my head open. Stupidest way to get a scar, but it's one that I have.
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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.
