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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.
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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It's pleasanter to work in the country, where you can wander out among the trees. But I don't get as much work done. In the city you don't want to leave the room because there's all that chaos going on.
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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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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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It's age. It's a diminution of energy and the worry that there are no new ideas. It's an increasing lack of confidence. I'm not the only one. I've checked with other people.
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I don't like the word 'career'. When somebody says to me, 'oh, you've had such a wonderful career', I think, 'career - that's after you're dead.' I just don't think that way.
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Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.
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Into the woods you go again You have to every now and then Into the woods, no telling when Be ready for the journey Into the woods, each time you go There's more to learn of what you know.
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I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.
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The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.
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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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To wish and wait From day to day Will never keep The wolves away.
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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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I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs.
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