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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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
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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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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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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 realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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I feel more Jewish than I do Iranian.
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To those many millions of you unfamiliar with my work, I play a caddish British doctor in practice with Mindy Kaling on her excellent sitcom 'The Mindy Project.'
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When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.
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By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.
