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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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
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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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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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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 last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.
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You know, when you first come up, and you get called up to the big leagues, all you want to do is just, you just want to have a career, a nice career. You want to make a living at it.
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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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I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.
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People say, 'What advice do you have for people who want to be writers?' I say, they don't really need advice, they know they want to be writers, and they're gonna do it. Those people who know that they really want to do this and are cut out for it, they know it.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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I was sad to see anybody leave, we had a very nice family on that show. I was very sad to see momma go, Victoria and especially Linda. My god that was my wife on the show, in fact my wife calls her wife.
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Writing is a form of mischief.
