Stephen Sondheim Quotes
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.
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I know my life story sounds too extraordinary to be true.
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I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.
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But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.
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I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.
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My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Abe Krok was a man of integrity who made a unique contribution to Mamelodi Sundowns and to South African football.
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Nobody wants to retire from football.
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I am also hugely excited to then be competing to defend my three Paralympic titles at the Paralympic Games. I believe we will see some amazing times posted and I am very much looking forward to what will be an incredible Olympics and Paralympics in London.
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Why is computer science a good field for women? For one thing, that's where the jobs are, and for another, the pay is better than for many jobs, and finally, it's easier to combine career and family.
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Americans are cool; if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They'll pat you on the arm and say, 'Hey kid, you're all right.' Brits will respond but they are much more cynical.
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It's one thing to say, 'I don't like what you said to me and I find it rude and offensive,' but the moment you threaten violence in return, you've taken it to another level, where you lose whatever credibility you had.
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If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
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The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.
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Things look especially bleak for common killers such as diabetes and heart disease. Those ailments clearly have a genetic component. But when scientists survey genes looking for which mutations patients have in common, they come up empty.
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When you're a kid, and you grow up, it takes some time for people to associate you with more things other than that initial thing.
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Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.
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If you ever were bullied, you'll always remember that feeling.
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If liberals didn't have double standards, they wouldn't have any standards at all.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.
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Sometimes colleagues in performance are absolutely astonishing.
