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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.
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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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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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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One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.
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Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.
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After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.
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If I cannot fly, let me sing.
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Anything that is white is sweet. Anything that is brown is meat. Anything that is grey, don't eat.
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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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Art is craft, not inspiration.
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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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The man i'll never be, Who remembers him?
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Gotta watch out for directors.
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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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I've always preferred actors who sing to singers who act in all the shows I've done.
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Tonight, tonight, won't be just any night. Tonight there will be no morning star.
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Almost all the shows I've been connected with have been extremely well cast. They're playing the show, not just doing the songs.
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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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White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.
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Slotted spoons don't hold much soup.
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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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