Stephen Sondheim Quotes

You're so nice. You're not good, you're not bad, You're just nice. I'm not good, I'm not nice, I'm just right. I'm the witch. You're the world.

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• My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.

  

  Jack Wagner
  • People
  • Life
  • Mother

• I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Time
  • Different
  • Writing

• I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Day
  • Morning
  • Waiting

• To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • You
  • Honest
  • Lazy

• We are going to have to discuss with and seek the opinions of other countries. We don't wish to offend anyone, least of all a country we hold in such deep regard as the United Kingdom.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Country
  • Wish
  • Deep

• Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Work
  • Great
  • Saying

• I think 'The Walking Dead' is very interestingly paced. It's slow, almost like an old Western. It's also very stylised - visually, I think it's very pretty. It's more of a psychological drama than anything else.

  

  Tania Raymonde
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Drama

• Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Become
  • Poison

• It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.

  

  Frances Wright
  • May
  • Best
  • Liberty

• If some people try to make a prenup into a pre-negotiation of a divorce... Well, that's really sad. But I do think that it's important to understand what each person has coming into the relationship, and what each person expects from the relationship. They aren't always fun discussions to have, and they can be very eye-opening.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • People
  • Important
  • Fun

• I have a lot of vanity.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Vanity
  • Lot

• I know I always had a lot of energy growing up and I had to put it somewhere. Theater allowed me to really feel things, to laugh, to cry, to explode outward. I could do anything and it was totally accepted and appreciated. If I hadn't gone into the theater, I probably would have been a psychotic killer.

  

  Faith Prince
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Growing

• I eat right and stay healthy as much as possible.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Right
  • Healthy
  • Possible

• I asked my body if it was going to die or not from AIDS. And it said 'no.' I sort of paid attention to that.

  

  Edmund White
  • Attention
  • Die
  • Body

• Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Done
  • Day
  • Amazing

• I've always had very catholic tastes.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Always
  • Catholic
  • Very

• We are very lucky to work in fashion and not work in a hospital or something where the biggest deal we come across is perhaps the length of a skirt.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Work
  • Fashion
  • Lucky

• I stay away from the elf roles; I stay away from playing a leprechaun. All the roles I try to do are something that an average actor would do.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Something
  • Try
  • Average

• I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • Nature

• It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to.

  

  Will Oldham
  • Nice
  • Used
  • Embarrassed

• The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.

  

  Kenneth Tynan
  • Writing
  • Effort

• I stopped by Politics & Prose to sign a few copies of 'Constellation.' A couple days later, I learned that Barack Obama also stopped by and left with one of them.

  

  Anthony Marra
  • Couple

• Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less legible to those who try to see one another with their own faulty vision.

  

  Judith Butler
  • History
  • Love Is
  • Ghosts

• You're so nice. You're not good, you're not bad, You're just nice. I'm not good, I'm not nice, I'm just right. I'm the witch. You're the world.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • World
  • Nice
  • Witch