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The man i'll never be, Who remembers him?

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Stephen Sondheim
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: March 22
Author
Composer
Dramaturge
Librettist
Lyricist
Musician
Poet
Screenwriter
Songwriter
New York City
New York
Stephen Joshua Sondheim
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I was watching him crawl, Back over the wall-! Then bang! Crash! And the lightning flash! And- well, that's another story, Never mind- Anyway.
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When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.
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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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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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I get some flak for and some resistance from colleagues for because I'm interested in storytelling. I mean what I like about songwriting is songs used to tell a story.
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I'm sure many writers have these strange, tiny little habits.
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Sometimes I'll ask the book writer to write a monologue, not to be performed, just as if they were notes for the character.
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Opportunity is not a lengthy visitor.
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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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To wish and wait From day to day Will never keep The wolves away.
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Gotta watch out for directors.
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On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.
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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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I do not hope for what I cannot have! I do not cling to things I cannot keep!
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I took piano lessons when I was 6. I didn't want to go on with it. I don't remember being moved by a piece of music.
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Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.
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There's something inimical about the camera and song.
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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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In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.
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