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Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father. I liked my father a lot, he was a swell fellow, but I didn’t see him very often because my mother was bitter about him and did everything she could to prevent me from seeing him.
Stephen Sondheim
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Stephen Sondheim
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: March 22
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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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Tonight, tonight, won't be just any night. Tonight there will be no morning star.
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I'm sure many writers have these strange, tiny little habits.
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Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.
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I've always preferred actors who sing to singers who act in all the shows I've done.
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Pointillism takes emotional images, character, etc., and makes them all come together and make a whole that tells a story.
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Success is like failure, It's how you perceive it, It's what you do with it, not how you achieve it.
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It should be interesting to see two entirely different ways to treat a story, geared for two entirely different kinds of audience.
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Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.
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Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution.
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The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service.
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Sometimes colleagues in performance are absolutely astonishing.
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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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By the time I get through writing a score, I know the book better than the book writer does, because I've examined every word, and questioned the book writer on every word.
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My cage has many rooms.
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Oh if life were made of moments Even now and then a bad one--! But if life were only moments, Then you'd never know you had one.
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If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.
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Take a play that you like but you think is flawed, and see if you can improve it and turn it into a musical. [...] Then make up your own story.
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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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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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