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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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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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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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I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.
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There's something inimical about the camera and song.
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Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.
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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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My main goal is to tell a story.
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In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.
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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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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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I've always preferred actors who sing to singers who act in all the shows I've done.
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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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Gotta watch out for directors.
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What justifies a character singing one idea for 3 minutes on the screen? I get impatient and want the story to carry on. I don't get impatient in the theatre.
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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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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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I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs.
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I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken the choosing was not. You have to move on.
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My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.
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All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.
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