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Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead.
Stephen Sondheim
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Stephen Sondheim
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: March 22
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Stephen Joshua Sondheim
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Over a period of time it's been driven home to me that I'm not going to be the most popular writer in the world, so I'm always happy when anything in any way is accepted.
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Tonight, tonight, won't be just any night. Tonight there will be no morning star.
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That's the trouble with awards for a body of work. They always come at both a good time and a wrong time. Good because they tell you what you've been doing was worth the doing and wrong because they ought to come when you're young and excited and hungry for assurance that what you're doing is worth the doing.
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I'm before him on my knees, and he kisses me He assumes I lose my reason and I do. Men are stupid, men are vain, Love's disgusting, love's insane, A humiliating business-oh how true.
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My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.
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Everyone tells tiny lies, what's important really is the size.
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Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.
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Only capitalists get photographers.
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For anyone approaching any one of the cast albums, if they don't like what they hear, it's not the performer's fault.
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Gotta watch out for directors.
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I like neurotic people. I like troubled people. Not that I don't like squared-away people, but I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.
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I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it.
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I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken the choosing was not. You have to move on.
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There's a hole in the world Like a great black pit And the vermin of the world Inhabit it ... And it goes by the name of London.
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Slotted spoons don't hold much soup.
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In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.
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If I got involved with the chat rooms and Facebook and everything - I would probably never leave. That's why I don't do it. I literally don't do it. At all.
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The Tonys ignored West Side Story. The Tonys ignored Gypsy. It's a kind of public humiliation.
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The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.
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Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.
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