Stephen Sondheim Quotes
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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There is no one true church.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.
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Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
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Those who go along get along.
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A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
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I didn't go to school a lot.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
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I worked at a hospital parking cars and getting folks in and out of the hospital as they would come in for their appointments.
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I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.
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The track is fast and I appreciate anything is possible.
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A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
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You are who you are and what you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change who you are and what you are by changing what goes into your mind.
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Tiger the dog had a showdown with a fast moving flower truck in the middle of the street and lost.
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I have big dreams. I want to keep songwriting. Direct films. Be a parent.
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The ostensible subject of my photographs may be motion, but the subtext is time. A dancer's movements illustrate the passage of time, giving it a substance, materiality, and space. In my photographs, time is stopped, a split second becomes an eternity, and an ephemeral moment is solid as sculpture.
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My eyes are too small, and they're too close together, and I have a pointy nose. But who cares? Who cares?!
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The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.
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If my energy was fake, then I would feel pressured, because I gotta, like, keep this up. I thank God it's just how I am. But I find myself wanting to work on being more comfortable in the silence with people.
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Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.
