Stephen Sondheim Quotes
I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.
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I don't like to post fresh standup material, because I want to use it in a special. The stuff I like to post online I like to be off-the-cuff moments.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.
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My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive around festivals and have millions of children - children with dreadlocks and nose rings - and play the flute.
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Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.
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I keep saying, the older I get, the younger my audience gets. Because 'Wicked' and 'Rent' and 'Glee,' each one was a young audience, so it's a great thing to have, so then you know that as they get older and have kids, they'll maybe still buy tickets to my shows when I'm 80 and in Vegas!
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One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.
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Jesus Christ will appear with me on the platform...
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Although we are all different, we all respond to each other's suggestions of perfection. And we enjoy the same response as the artist. It is the inner contemplation, the wanting to respond to life, that opens our eyes to what is already in the mind.
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I'm not going to whine or get depressed. Who's going to feel sorry for me? Nobody.
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My greatest accomplishment is receiving my role on 'Guiding Light.'
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Relative to the taxi industry, Uber is a sustaining innovation; that is, it makes customers' lives better. Uber targeted mainstream markets with a better service for existing customers, and it succeeded in serving them better than the incumbents.
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The best memories on tour are always of kids who tell me they are going to run back to their classrooms and start writing!
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If you look where kids are spending time on the Net, they may have all the information in the world, but they're not accessing it.
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Some of the stories in Dogwalker were written as long as four years ago, but I wouldn't say I've been working on this collection for four years. I have always been a little unsure of whether I could make it as a writer so I've held other jobs and worked on other projects this whole time.
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When I started trying to produce records for other people, one of the first tracks I wrote and produced was sort of a 'Kelly Clarkson circa 2008,' kind of big-brassy, guitar-pop, rock song. I was like, 'I can do this. I can make pop songs.' It was bad.
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I think what Mr. Trump has is this - he has experiences. He has put more things together in businesses around the United States, around the world. And he's had some things that didn't go exactly right. He's been able to find a way to resurrect those things. He's been able to make some changes.
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The most personal track would have to be 'Love The Way We Used To.' It's one of the songs that I listen to outside of all the records that I wrote.
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I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs.
