Stephen Sondheim Quotes

The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.

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• You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

  

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• I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.

  

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• The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.

  

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• For many older Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, a lifetime of discrimination has undermined their right to a retirement with dignity.

  

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• My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

  

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• Something happens to a woman when she can't reproduce. I've not had to walk that path, but I can only imagine when your organs don't work and how that could make you feel.

  

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• Our plans for 'Superman?' I can't say. This is the most super secret thing ever. It's like working for the government, like I'm on a covert mission.

  

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• The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.

  

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• 'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that.

  

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• Running doesn't come easy to me, especially the first thirty or so minutes. My message is take it one step at a time.

  

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• I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness.

  

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• Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.

  

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• We're not trying to be the only route into teaching. We do put enormous energy into understanding what differentiates the most successful teachers.

  

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• I found 'Celebrity Gangster' intense, dramatic, a real page turner.

  

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• The intention that naturally exists: 'My intention is to get done with this commute.' So I've just doomed myself to an hour of discomfort, because my intention will not be met until I get out of the car.

  

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• Is it any wonder why Princes & Kings, Are clowns that caper in their sawdust rings, When ordinary people who are like you and me, Are the builders of their destiny...

  

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• The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Stage