Stephen Sondheim Quotes

You may know what you need, but to get what you want, better see that you keep what you have.

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• I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.

  

  Fleur East
  • School
  • Dad
  • Day

• Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • See

• I believe, certainly in the NHL, a player who can help a team win because he can contribute on the ice is going to be coveted whatever his beliefs may be or whoever he may be. That goes to national origin, religious beliefs, or sexuality.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Believe
  • May
  • Help

• I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Amazing

• These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Kind
  • Project
  • Days

• I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.

  

  Fan Bingbing
  • Important
  • Beautiful
  • Beauty

• Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • History
  • Generation
  • Irish

• I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • World
  • Long
  • Writing

• We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Children
  • Growing
  • Teach

• We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Want
  • Human
  • Human being

• I did one touring show with Horatio Sanz. We went to, I think it was Iowa State University, and we were in this field house, so people were sitting on the floor. It started out with 2,500 people in there. We delivered the most mediocre improv, and it went from a crowd of 2,500 to 250 people in the course of 45 minutes. It was grim.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • People
  • Think
  • House

• I'd love to be in a feature film, and I don't just mean in a starring role - it could be a small part. And I would like to act in television, to do comedy and drama.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Love
  • Small
  • Comedy

• I have vitamins I intend to take to be a better person. I even have a pillbox for them to remind myself to be healthier. But will I take them? Definitely not.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Myself
  • Better Person

• The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Artist
  • Function
  • Invent

• In short, the satisfaction of creating, not necessarily the process, always lifts my heart.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Heart
  • Process
  • Short

• We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Trying
  • Truth
  • Man

• But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• My first audition as a little girl was 'Interview with the Vampire' for Kirsten Dunst's part. Back then, they were meeting all different kinds of girls, and I was one of them. There's got to be an audition tape somewhere on VHS. Who would have known that many years later I would be on a vampire show?

  

  Kat Graham
  • Different
  • Girl
  • Years

• We're raising our girls to understand the real meaning of Christmas, and to know that it's most important to have Christmas in your heart. We go to our local mall and donate toys, and we say prayers for all the people in the world who might not be as lucky as we are.

  

  Faith Hill
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• COUSINS ARE MY RELIGION .. THERE HOUSE IS MY CHURCH .. ARE FIGHTS ARE THE CHOIR .. I LOVE MY COUSINS ..

  

  Claude Shannon
  • House
  • Church
  • Cousins

• Whenever I release a record, it's my record. It's not a selfish thought. I may work all year 'round for other people. So, finally, when I come out with my own album, it should be me with the creative help of other musicians.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • People
  • Work
  • May

• We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.

  

  William Glasser
  • May
  • Wall
  • Bloody

• If you want something done right, just forget it.

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Want
  • Right
  • Forget

• You may know what you need, but to get what you want, better see that you keep what you have.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • May
  • Want
  • Needs