Stephen Sondheim Quotes
For me it's more fun to find an unexpected moment for a character to sing when you don't expect them to.Stephen Sondheim
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I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.
Vanessa Carlton -
Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
Hanya Yanagihara -
Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
Raf Simons -
A novel - it's also a way of attacking subjects that you cannot confront in the eye.
Ingrid Betancourt -
We are all terminal.
Jack Kevorkian -
That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.
Barry McGuire
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I know that a lot of people take inspiration from the fact that I was just a common man with no film background who turned into a star.
Uday Kiran -
Every crowd has a silver lining.
P. T. Barnum -
As a comic, it's anti-comedy to be known. I think a lot of comedic actors get lost in this world of Hollywood and all this stuff. They lose what brought them there in the first place. I'm very trepidatious about it.
Zach Galifianakis -
Actors don't need a lot of talk beyond the first few sentences. They may say they don't draw on their own life, but all actors do.
Edoardo Ponti -
My father has been to me a paragon of what actualizing philanthropic potential can be.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen -
Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.
Nadine Gordimer
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It's true that a smile can take years off a person - not that such a thing matters in Yoko Ono's case.
Elvis Mitchell -
You can rest a lot in an hour or have a whole day and not do it properly. One way I get a quality recharge is to connect with nature. To experience something that's bigger than me.
Lili Taylor -
We don't need unelected federal agency bureaucrats in Washington telling our states what they can and can't do with respect to protecting their limited taxpayer dollars in private enterprises.
Marsha Blackburn -
There's something specific about Chicagoans, and I just felt like I'd love to tell their story in a creative way. Not in a way to go, 'Oh, Chicago's perfect.' I don't believe that. I don't think that. I know we have our issues.
Lena Waithe -
I think most documentaries are too long.
Marshall Curry -
We will cut programs, we will try to rein in the size of the bureaucracy. We will bring federal pay scales that have become so exaggerated into line with market rates.
Eric Cantor
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I will stand up for what I believe and for what I have always believed: Every person has a right to be rich in this country and I want to help them get there.
Jim Cramer -
There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life.
Aaliyah -
So the fact that there's someone who's planning what happens to the characters, writing it down, means that the characters always have a fate. And when we think about fate, we tend think of it as the thing we would have if we were literary characters, that is, if there were somebody out there, writing us.
Daniel Kehlmann -
If ever we had proof that our nation's pollution laws aren't working, it's reading the list of industrial chemicals in the bodies of babies who have not yet lived outside the womb.
Louise Slaughter -
I had wanted to be a dancer when I was younger. But at some point I figured out I was a better singer.
Kathleen Anne Brien -
For me it's more fun to find an unexpected moment for a character to sing when you don't expect them to.
Stephen Sondheim