Stephen Sondheim Quotes
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To live in New York is to see the world as it is to come.
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Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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Endurance in ministry is rooted in the eternal perspective. The absence of an eternal perspective makes you vulnerable to losing heart.
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Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.
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People are incredible creatures of habit.
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I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?
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Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
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There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day.
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I have always done exercise because I was a dancer, and it is probably good for you. I have done yoga consistently.
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I think you learn something from everybody that you've worked with. I really learned how to behave on set through the people that I worked with, like the importance of being on time and the importance of being professional. I don't bring my cell phone on set; I leave it in my trailer.
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Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.
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Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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As long as I do not take myself too seriously, I should not be too badly off.
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The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.
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If you can market smut and toilet paper, you can market movies.
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When my mother tells me to do something, I'll do my own thing. A strong character can be good, but sometimes it is not good. I hope it's good in my case.
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If you want to uncover problems you don't know about, take a few moments and look closely at the areas you haven't examined for a while. I guarantee you problems will be there.
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In Christ, there is nothing I can do that would make You love me more and nothing I have done that makes You love me less.
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Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created People in the history of the world. And their manners were their own business. And so were their politics. And so, but ten times so, were their souls.
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A close-up on screen can say all a song can.
