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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Ah, Harry, how often this happens, even between the best of friends! Each of us believes that what he has to say is much more important than anything the other might have to contribute!
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It's okay to lose your pride over someone you love. Don't lose someone you love though over your pride!
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The way that I sort of direct the writers is, let's do the best story we can. Let's not worry about production issues. 'How much will that cost? How are we going to shoot that?' Let's not set up those constraints on the writing. I don't think it helps the project to work like that.
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My life wasn't always smooth sailing. Two members of my family were diagnosed with cancer, so I spent a lot of time in hospitals and giving home care. Several close friends died. I fell in love with the wrong person. And I was working all the time but still sliding into debt. My life wasn't anything like I thought it would be. And then I got in a bad car accident. I walked away, but it was like a splash of cold water. The next day, I started writing Twelve Lives. Sometimes, when you're backed into a corner and have nothing to lose, it's a great place to write from.
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As an actor, you're always worried about getting stuck on a show that's not good because working actors need the paycheck. So being cast on a regular procedural, where everything gets wrapped up by the end of the episode, was always a fear of mine because that doesn't really test you as an actor.
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Writing is a form of mischief.
