Stephen Sondheim Quotes
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.
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I myself feel that I'm a well-rounded player and got a lot better defensively and without the puck as time has gone on.
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Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.
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We must not stop speaking the truth to the radical parties because voters will follow those who speak the truth, and European politics will grow more radical, which is in nobody's interest.
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I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.
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If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Using MO to link crimes can be problematic.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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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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The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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I like to run a lot. I play tennis, and I like doing outdoorsy stuff - fishing, canoeing.
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My mum and dad used to make me stand up at dinner parties and sing to their friends.
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Like I always tell people, I don't pander to any audience, but you have to play to your audience.
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It is better to prepare and prevent than it is to repair and repent.
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Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.
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No pressure. Just relax and watch it happen.
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There's a little book I'm thinking of writing - 'Swan Song' is what I shall call it. The song of the dying. And my book will be incense burnt at the deathbed of this society, damned with the damnation of its own impotence.
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Who consciously throws himself into the water or onto the knife?
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Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.
