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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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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When you're 22 or 23, you think the world revolves around you, and I felt that way for a long time. But I just turned 30, and I love it! You realize, 'Whoa, baby, you ain't all that.' And you're not! You're just a woman out there doing something she loves.
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I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option.
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Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.
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Writing is a form of mischief.
