Stephen Sondheim Quotes
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I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
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The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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I think I can get away, sometimes, with walking in the streets and not getting noticed. I like that. I want my work to get noticed, not me. And it's slowly getting there, which is good.
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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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Every country I would go to, even if it was just on a modeling job, I would go to their markets. If I went to Morocco for 'Elle' magazine, I would be in the spice markets during my off time and just come back with a suitcase full of stuff that I really wanted to try.
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Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
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Poverty is no disgrace. But it is certainly not a recommendation.
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Give us this day our daily discount merchandise.
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Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.
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I'm passionate about being an actor, but I'm definitely not passionate about being a sex symbol.
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I grew up Catholic, and when you've grown up, and these belief systems have been presented to you at a young, impressionable age, I don't know that you can shake them. Even if your rational mind tells you something else, sometimes they're so deeply ingrained that they are with you for the rest of your life.
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Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words!
