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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A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.
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It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
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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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High gas prices are eating away at consumer's disposal income and could lead to a further economic downturn, especially for those whose livelihood depend on gasoline and diesel fuel.
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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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Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap resonance of reality.
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Why would somebody just read a novel when they can see it on TV or in the cinema? I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can't and play to the strengths of the novel. With a novel, you can get right inside somebody's head.
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I was a precocious child.
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But i was young, and i got so cross. in the early days we made up easily. had fun making up, in fact.
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I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs.
