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 goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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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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I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
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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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For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.
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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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The most constructive way of resolving conflicts is to avoid them.
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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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I'm quite a strong person, and I've become even stronger.
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There is a real formula to writing music, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. It's very formulaic. The subject matter that you can address in pop music is somewhat restricted. It just doesn't allow that same emotive quality that you can put into poetry.
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Writing is a crummy profession, but a good hobby.
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All archaeologists in Israel and Palestine make use of the New Testament Gospels. They do this because the Gospels exhibit verisimilitude. In short, the Gospels help archaeologists know where to dig and they help archaeologists understand what they unearth. The 2nd-century Gospels and Gospel-like writings rarely exhibit verisimilitude, so archaeologists rarely appeal to them.
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Writing is a form of mischief.
