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.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Know
  • Born
  • Died

• What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Mind
  • Compassion
  • Results

• A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Nature
  • Way
  • Egg

• Sharing is the essence of social media.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Media
  • Social Media
  • Sharing

• 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.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Season
  • Minds
  • Resources

• 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.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Great
  • Emotional
  • Jazz

• Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • Chance
  • Note
  • Seldom

• 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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Work
  • Children

• À quelle heure, s'il vous plaît?

  

  Victor Hugo

• Far from it be the notion that the Supreme Being is corporeal, having a material form.

  

  Maimonides

• There aren't a lot of supernatural things that I'm scared or super terrified of, but clowns are definitely on that list.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Supernatural

• I did try to leave, and she came running after me.

  

  David Gest
  • She
  • Running

• 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.

  

  Lee Atwater
  • Up
  • Country
  • Truth

• I find acting slightly nerve racking, but I like the challenge.

  

  Jane Wiedlin
  • Challenge

• 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.

  

  ASAP Ferg
  • Up
  • Death
  • City

• Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Marriage

• I like rice, as long as they let me put my own stuff on it. You can bring me white rice or brown rice; just let me doctor it up.

  

  Boo Weekley
  • Up
  • Long

• I didn't know this about myself, but when 'Pirates of the Caribbean' came out I realised that I didn't enjoy a huge amount of recognition. I didn't react to it well, but I think life is about finding out who you are and what you like. So I started doing independent movies and art-house films instead.

  

  Keira Knightley
  • Life
  • Art
  • House

• Having a daughter has reawakened my sense of feminism. I want to protect her.

  

  Abi Morgan
  • Daughter

• I work in the house next to where I live. We bought a smaller house that I use as my office and the place where my two employees work... We've got tens of thousands of letters from kids stored all over the house in places you would usually put dishes and other things like that.

  

  Jeff Kinney
  • Work
  • Live
  • Kids

• Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Years
  • New
  • Israel

• A big section of our audience is young and female. Housewives like our love songs, but then again, everyone likes to dream about love.

  

  Darren Hayes Savage Garden
  • Dream
  • Audience
  • Songs

• The portrait of a person is one of the most difficult things to do. It means you must almost bring the presence of that person photographed to other people in such a way that they don't have to know that person personally, but that they are still confronted with a human being that they won't forget. That's a portrait.

  

  Paul Strand
  • People
  • Mean
  • Difficult

• 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.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Mean
  • Moving
  • Imagination