Stephen Sondheim Quotes
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I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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My senior thesis was a documentary. By the time I graduated from college, I thought I was going to make films, and my interest in acting was there but kind of confused.
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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
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Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old.
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Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
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Art is ..the mysterious expression of the mysterious..
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The art of life is more like the wrestler's art than the dancer's, in respect of this, that it should stand ready and firm to meet onsets which are sudden and unexpected.
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Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.
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Headliners, no matter the genre, usually are a person or band who has an ethos.
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I'm proud that I've never stopped writing about being poor.
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At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.
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I love playing with a full band, but there's just like a different feeling up on stage when you're playing with a smaller group. It's easier to play off each other.
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I think a lot of women innately know how to play their hand. I'm not a big one for the rules.
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Our job as actors is to just try to be as accurate and as mindful of what the audience is going through and receiving and processing.
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Jeanne Moreau, Lauren Bacall, they had this unconventional beauty, this amazing charisma.
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Researchers can measure what kind of angles your legs take up during the day when they're just trailing around behind you in weightless conditions, and what kind of impacts you feel during your exercise. They're going to compare that with what we do on the ground.
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Grace is the essence of theology and gratitude is the essence of ethics.
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When it comes time to go into the booth, I will be writing down President Mike Bloomberg.
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Writing is what we do. What else could I want in a life partner than someone who knows and shares what I do?
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Writing is a form of mischief.
