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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I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!
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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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We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.
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English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.
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Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion.
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My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed.
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O sweet everlasting Voices, be still; Go to the guards of the heavenly fold And bid them wander obeying your will, Flame under flame, till Time be no more.
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You are as old as you look. If you are fit and pretty at an X age, why won't filmmakers want to cast you, whether you are married or not?
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Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words!
