Stephen Sondheim Quotes
By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.
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If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
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I tend to want to put my fingers over my ears and not hear all of that, not hear that there are so many fans.
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
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I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.
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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
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I grew up in Albany Park in Chicago and then went to Lake View High School.
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I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
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I'm just kind of fascinated by how we can deny that we are animals and what our impact on the other animals is like, and how quixotic we can be in trying to assess what we've done in trying to correct it.
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An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
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I always loved Hanks in 'Philadelphia' and 'Forrest Gump' and watching how versatile he was. That shaped my impression of what someone was able to do. Of course, everything De Niro came up with was always something I was taken by.
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As long as there have been elections, there have been attempts to keep eligible people from voting.
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I can tell you that my family in the absolute worst of times has seen the absolute best in people. And, that has given us more strength than could ever imagine.
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U.S. nuclear weapons that are available for presidential use are targeted against broad ocean areas.
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I love watching a good, freaky horror movie. I love it. It's one of my favorite things to do, to go and see at the cinema. Just to tune out and be freaked out.
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Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis.
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We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
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You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.
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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
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By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.
