Stephen Sondheim Quotes
If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.
Quotes to Explore
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There are no soft or slothful ways to become sanctified to the point that we are prepared to live in the presence of the Savior. And there can be blessings in the burdens we bear. As a result of these struggles, our souls are stretched and our spirits are strengthened. Our character becomes more Christlike as we are tried and tested.
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.
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Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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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'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
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There is a clear link between illegal migrants coming to Europe and the spread of terrorism.
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India has given me everything. It has made me Vijay Mallya.
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People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.
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I have always been an active part of my community.
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I don't believe you should stay onstage until people are begging you to get off. I like the idea of leaving them wanting a bit more.
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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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You're at a party or an event, and you're interacting with other people, but there's no shame in getting your camera out and getting your perfect angle. It's bizarre to me.
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I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.
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I would write 100 jokes a day. Most of them were terrible. But I just said, 'I'll write more than everybody else, and that's how I'll get better.'
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Sunday itself-that unfortunate failure of a holyday as it too often proved, what with my sense of its fugitiveness, and over-care to get the greatest quantity of pleasure out of it …
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I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do.
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All bodies together, and each by itself, give off to the surrounding air an infinite number of images which are all-pervading and each complete, each conveying the nature, colour and form of the body which produces it.
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I get amazed, I can't look at it but about 10 seconds, at these politicians dancing around this, dancing around this, I'm trying to find a correct name for it, this utter absolute, asinine, idiotic stupidity of men marrying men.
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If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.
