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Gotta watch out for directors.

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Stephen Sondheim
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: March 22
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Stephen Joshua Sondheim
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The truth is that I don't like rehearsals. I get embarrassed hearing my own work. I assume that the cast is embarrassed to sing the stuff.
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I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs.
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Art is craft, not inspiration.
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Everyone would like to be on Broadway, cause if a show works, you make a great deal of money and it allows you to write other shows.
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I do not dwell on dreams I know how soon a dream becomes an expectation How can I have expectations? Look at me, No, Captain, Look at me, Look at me!
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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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Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integrally, with them.
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The man i'll never be, Who remembers him?
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Sometimes people leave you Halfway through the wood Others may decieve you You decide what's good You decide alone But no one is alone
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Everyone tells tiny lies, what's important really is the size.
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I didn't really want to write just lyrics, but I wanted to meet Leonard Bernstein. Music was always the first reason I was writing songs.
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Any moment, big or small, Is a moment, after all. Seize the moment, skies may fall Any moment.
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I do not hope for what I cannot have! I do not cling to things I cannot keep!
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I was raised to be charming, not sincere.
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When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't.
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Now, this one might be a little stringy, but then again, it's fiddle player. That isn't fiddle player, it's piccolo player. How can you tell? It's PIPING hot! Then blow on it first!
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You get used to the exact amount of space between lines. You write a word and then you write an alternate word over it. You want enough room so you can read it, so the lines can't be too close.
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It's not so much do what you like as it is that you like what you do.
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