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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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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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 like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It's not just about being able to run around the block a few times. It's about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It's about being balanced.
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It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.
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I went to school for creative writing in college, and I wound up about six hours short of my degree.
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When in my writing lair, I have no access to the Web. Otherwise, I'm like one of those lab rats on too much sugar. To compile my Google searches would be to see my sludgy, allusive brain at work.
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Writing is a form of mischief.
