Stephen Sondheim Quotes
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Age for me is just a number.
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I hope to get out before they start football next year.
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It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.
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For the most part, I don't care about what everyone else is doing, or what is popular.
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As long as my family's OK, I'll be fine.
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I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
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The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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I was in Kenya when I read 'Catch-22,' and I associate this book that has nothing to do with Kenya - whenever I think of 'Catch-22,' I think of Nairobi.
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It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!
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I said to myself as Junction Point embarked on the Epic Mickey journey that, worst case, we'd be 'a footnote in Disney history.' Looking back on it, I think we did far better than that.
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I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.
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I trust bitcoin more than I trust my bank.
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I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.
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I get to be the nosiest friend or acquaintance that anyone has because it's - my job is to ask you about your dating life all the time.
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Orson Welles's second 'I-did-it' should show once and for all that film making, radio and the stage are three different guys better kept separated. 'The Magnificent Ambersons' is one of those versions of the richest family in town during the good old days.
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Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.
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I am a parcel of vain strivings tiedBy a chance bond together,Dangling this way and that, their linksWere made so loose and wide,Methinks,For milder weather.
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That was the danger Samuel Butler jestingly prophesied in Erewhon, the danger that the human being might become a means whereby the machine perpetuated itself and extended its dominion.
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Once you do have a child, you want to talk about every detail of it. And it is really boring to all your friends, and it should be. I was really worried about even going there at all.
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I went to a Catholic girls' school before we moved to Florida when I was 15.
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We are part of each other and part of something bigger than our own egos. An artist should... bring into the world some vision. Dancers should ask, "What is their work in the service of?"
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Having just the vision's no solution, everything depends on execution
