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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Doing 'Young Adult' was really reassuring to me in a lot of ways. It confirmed a lot of suspicions I had about great actors.
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Persistence is a characteristic to which success invariably surrenders.
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I've been fortunate to be working mostly right out of school. Every year, there was a little something, and it kept the confidence going. It's about confidence and the belief.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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If you record the world honestly, there's no way people can stop being funny. A lot of fiction writing doesn't get that idea, as if to acknowledge it would trivialize the story or trivialize human nature, when in fact human nature is reduced and falsified if the comic aspects are not included.
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I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs.
