Stephen Sondheim Quotes
By the time I get through writing a score, I know the book better than the book writer does, because I've examined every word, and questioned the book writer on every word.
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I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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I never feel there's anything I can't do.
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Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.
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I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'
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I am not trying to conform to an unrealistic model of beauty. I am, however, being proactive in being the healthiest I can be.
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You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
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I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.
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Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.
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I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute.'
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With 'Kids React,' it started, hilariously enough, by thinking, 'Why, teenage girls seem to love 'Twilight' so much!' We went from wanting to ask them ourselves to coming up with the larger and more universal concept of a bunch of Kids reacting to viral videos.
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The problem with motor neurone disease is they don't know when it starts. People go into hospital having fallen but get wrapped up and sent away, unless they're seen by an incredibly astute doctor. It is only when several things begin to go wrong that it'll be diagnosed.
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Honestly, music is an expression, and if you will be that voice for these girls, there are some people that feel this. This is universal.
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The thing is, it was never a decision for me to never return to acting.
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In Hyderabad, I suppose my height does pique people's interest, but it's not like it's unacceptable. If you are confident about what you are doing, height doesn't make a difference. You can't be perfect in everything, you know!
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I must refine my training every day to give myself the best opportunity to achieve my dreams during the Olympic Games in Rio.
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Ten years after Dayton, that these two primary architects of these appalling crimes should still be free is a failure on all sides.
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In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.
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The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
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As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.
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By the time I get through writing a score, I know the book better than the book writer does, because I've examined every word, and questioned the book writer on every word.
