Stephen Sondheim Quotes

Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.

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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.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Good
  • Family
  • Friends

• 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.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Time
  • Data

• A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Time
  • Character
  • Man

• 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.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Happy

• A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Man
  • Poet
  • Lightning

• Tiger the dog had a showdown with a fast moving flower truck in the middle of the street and lost.

  

  Barry Williams
  • Lost
  • Moving
  • Dog

• Living in L.A. keeps me in my car a lot, and I'm constantly flipping back and forth between the following Sirius/XM Radio stations: NFL Radio, MLB Radio, POTUS, MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Me
  • Car
  • News

• Just imagine, the thousands and thousands of concerts that take place every single day, all over the world. And the positive effect that they would have on the people listening. Now imagine a world without this. This void... it is unthinkable.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • People
  • World
  • Single

• I love watching 'The Real Housewives of New York.' That's my guilty pleasure. But I don't even feel guilty. I can just watch it, zone out, and forget about my problems.

  

  Lauren Lapkus
  • Real
  • Guilty

• The thrill of doing 'Good People' is I love those kinds of stories, and I'm good at them, and it's wonderful to see that material given to a terrific director and a terrific cast.

  

  Kelly Masterson
  • People
  • Good

• I played piano as a kid; I still play a little bit.

  

  Bobby McFerrin

• When I was going through sad times, I'd watch 'Cheers' at the end of the day to make me feel better.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Sad

• I have a pretty expanded view of what art is. I include pop music and even some sports.

  

  Elizabeth Price
  • Music
  • Art
  • Pretty

• To me, 'Warrior' was a real turning point - probably one of the greatest experiences I've ever had as an actor on set.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Real
  • Warrior

• I started from nothing in Lichtenstein. The country is so small, and the only 'celebrity' type people who are from there are skiers.

  

  Al Walser
  • People
  • Country
  • Small

• I dream in color.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Dream
  • Color

• Rick Scott's my friend. And I think he's done a great job. And it's my experiences with him that are part of the reason I'm running for Senate.

  

  Carlos Lopez-Cantera
  • Great
  • Done
  • Job

• I just totally do not believe in this sort of Bart Simpson character who infects so much of our literature and film and TV stuff nowadays, these know-it-all kids who seem to understand the hypocrisy of the adult world so thoroughly and can talk about it with such articulateness. That's bunk.

  

  David Small
  • World
  • Believe
  • Character

• Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Dad

• Well, people fall in love with the wrong guy all the time, it doesn't make them bad people.

  

  Laurie Holden
  • People
  • Time
  • Bad

• I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Work
  • Positive
  • Negativity

• Generally for red carpet, I love to relax first. I love to work out. I love to eat well, drink tons of water beforehand, so on the night of the red carpet I feel good and ready to go. I also love to get a good body scrub.

  

  Emmanuelle Chriqui
  • Good
  • Work
  • Night

• Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Work
  • Art