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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I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
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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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Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.
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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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Entrepreneurship is all about deferred gratification.
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Commodity exchanges have a lot of advantages. One, you are helping transparency. Two, they are not political. It's institutional building. It can survive any environment, in theory.
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I'm not like most comedians. I don't deal with just heckles - I'm also dealing with threats and anger. Here I am, a brown person on stage being quite blunt. I talk about white privilege; I talk about U.S. imperialistic practices; I talk about colonialism. I'm not saying things that are easy for people to laugh at.
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Nobody is perfect, but life is about choices.
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I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.
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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.
