Stephen Sondheim Quotes
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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.
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Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.
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The goal has been not to get pigeonholed. I like working in different genres. I'm gonna try to be entertaining and funny and do my usual thing.
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Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.
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In the case of the Analytical Engine, we have undoubtedly to lay out a certain capital of analytical labour in one particular line, but this is in order that the engine may bring us in a much larger return in another line.
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If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.
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Faith is important to me.
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I'm all about showing people that I'm a little messed up, I have a lot of the same problems you have. By exposing myself and putting myself out there, people can relate to me and my act won't grow stale. I mean, nobody wants to hear a comedian say, 'Life is great.'
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I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.
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I would hate to see the idea of freedom disappear, and I wonder if maybe it will.
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The life of Lord Krishna has been misunderstood by many Western commentators. Scriptural allegory is baffling to literal minds. A hilarious blunder by a translator will illustrate this point. The story concerns an inspired medieval saint, the cobbler Ravidas, who sang in the simple terms of his own trade of the spiritual glory hidden in all mankind:
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.
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I think we brothers realised his loss more and more as we grew older. We actually grew closer after his death.
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Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.
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Every day a little death.
