Stephen Sondheim Quotes
The more you cling to things, The more you love them, The more the pain you suffer, When they're taken from you.
Quotes to Explore
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There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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We always trend set.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
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In today's world, social media, people get judged so much by the last thing that happened, I almost feel, in a way, young people get to see that not only is it OK to fail - that's the way you get to championship success, whether it's sports or business or life.
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The best are the ones built without controversy, when the owner, the architect, and the builder work together.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
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White sharks and tuna travel for thousands of miles before returning to the same hot spot just as salmon do when they return to the same stream. These journeys are the marine equivalent of wildebeest migrations that take place on the Serengeti plain in Africa.
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Every morning, I can lose myself just by looking at my son.
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So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.
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I'm very confident in my sexuality, and I really don't like talking about my romantic life in the press.
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Mancil Travis - I have always had a fascination with this character from my hometown. When I put pen to paper to recount stories I knew of him, I kept hearing this dream sequence in my head that was Willie Sugarcapps harmonies singing like a Greek chorus, "White carnations."
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I just want to thank all my fans for their loyalty and support-for coming out to the shows and buying the CDs.
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I think you're lucky if you discover what you really love at a young age. College wasn't something I was going to do. I wanted to keep acting, and I didn't want to go to New York or California and pound the pavement.
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The more you cling to things, The more you love them, The more the pain you suffer, When they're taken from you.
