Stephen Sondheim Quotes
The Tonys ignored West Side Story. The Tonys ignored Gypsy. It's a kind of public humiliation.
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I think I would like to see more roles for South Asian performers that are more inclusive and part of the American Diaspora, the American tapestry, perhaps the way that African American and Hispanic roles have developed.
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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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I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.
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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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What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.
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The third rule underscores the Japanese proverb that adversity makes a jewel of you.
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We all need critical confrontation of the fullest and most extreme kind that we can get. You can unnecessarily limit yourself by choosing your criticism.
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I wasn't bullied in high school, I was just ignored.
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The Tonys ignored West Side Story. The Tonys ignored Gypsy. It's a kind of public humiliation.
