Stephen Sondheim Quotes
The Tonys ignored West Side Story. The Tonys ignored Gypsy. It's a kind of public humiliation.
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NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.
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I think at first the Flume project really started out as an online thing. I used Facebook and SoundCloud, and I think we got lucky because it felt like a bit of a golden age of those social media platforms. So I managed to create quite a solid fan base online.
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Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.
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Question the motives of those who make requests of you. Discover what they really want. You may not want to give it.
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Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.
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If I could meet Quentin Tarantino, I don't know if I'd just ask him one question. I'd probably milk it into, like, 500 questions.
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If I could get the respect of 14-year-olds, I'm happy. They're the toughest audience.
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All of my songs are autobiographical.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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Part of me feels you can't say you were truly in love if it didn't last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that's when I'll know it's real - because it lasted.
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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.
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As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.
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You begin to take on the mentality of your coach. If he feels so confident, then I feel confident.
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It's literally, if I'm not working out, I eat the whole time I'm not working out. It's exhausting. You have to force-feed. You have to force yourself to eat food.
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I can be very passionate but I also have a bit of a hot temper - when pushed.
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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Look at what's happening between Main Street and Wall Street. The stock market index is up 136 percent from the bottom. Middle class jobs lost during the correction: six million. Middle class jobs recovered: one million. So therefore we're up 16 percent on the jobs that were lost. These are only born-again jobs. We don't really have any new jobs, and there's a massive speculative frenzy going on in Wall Street that is disconnected from the real economy.
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I busted my butt all my life building companies.
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A poor original is better than a good imitation.
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The ultimate aim of politics is not politics, but the activities which can be practised within the political framework of the State. Therefore an effective statement of these activities - e.g. science, art, religion - is in itself a declaration of ultimate aims around which the political means will crystallise... a society with no values outside of politics is a machine carrying its human cargo, with no purpose in its institutions reflecting their care, eternal aspirations, loneliness, need for love.
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The Tonys ignored West Side Story. The Tonys ignored Gypsy. It's a kind of public humiliation.
