Stephen Sondheim Quotes
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
Kara Walker -
In TV, you're always confused because you legitimately don't know what you're doing the next week.
Lamorne Morris -
I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
Kate Moss -
As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating.
Gary Hamel -
I like rap. I like anything with soul. I like anything you can feel, anything that makes you think that the artist had to make that song, or they were going to go crazy.
Banks -
There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one side in the belief that we will read them later on, perhaps even in another life.
Umberto Eco
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
H. L. Mencken -
I've found that the most engaging and satisfying author events I've done are with other people, where the conversation is spontaneous. I think that is by far the better way to introduce and promote a book.
Gayle Forman -
Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.
Palaniappan Chidambaram -
In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
Nancy Astor -
The more of what our music does violates the premise of its format that it's presented in, the better. So, hearing our music in the supermarket, a Muzak version, is great.
Walter Becker China Crisis -
I have written a picture book that is based on my daughters. You know, my youngest one likes to tell everybody, 'Mommy wrote 'Best Day Ever' about us.' Which is true.
Gayle Forman
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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
Wallace Stevens -
There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
Napoleon Hill -
Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost that.
Beck Bennett -
Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
Lance Henriksen -
There's more student debt than credit card debt! Everywhere I go, I run into young people trying to build careers while they keep shelling out money on their education loans. If the economy is looking for a new generation of home-buyers, I can't imagine they'll get it from these folks.
Gail Collins -
Every time you work is a challenge. There's a constant worry about it, and it's a side of acting I don't like.
Ian Mckellen
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It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness.
Hans Jonas -
A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
Ovid -
It's the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice.
Idina Menzel -
I'm just kind of fascinated by how we can deny that we are animals and what our impact on the other animals is like, and how quixotic we can be in trying to assess what we've done in trying to correct it.
T. C. Boyle -
I think that people always just assumed that I was a liberal because I came from Southeast Seattle.
Gary Locke -
Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new.
Stephen Sondheim