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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Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
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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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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.
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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 can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.
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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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Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.
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Without honest political dialogue it will be difficult to overcome the present situation. Therefore our aim is to ... help the development of that political dialogue.
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when I hide something, it stays hid, until I want it found.
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A fence can be protective around your family - a familial fence. Then, there are the people who only know how to take, to abuse, to offend and they build fences to keep you out. They don't have time to talk, they don't have kind words, they only talk about themselves. They never give an olive branch or forgiveness - they create a fence because of their personality or behavior and they want to create a barrier to keep people out.
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The Tonys ignored West Side Story. The Tonys ignored Gypsy. It's a kind of public humiliation.
