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Ah, but if you have no expectations, You can never have a disappointment.

Stephen Sondheim

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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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Let the moment go. . . . Don't forget it for a moment, though. Just remembering you've had an and when you're back to or makes the or mean more than it did before. . . . Now I understand! And it's time to leave the woods.
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To wish and wait From day to day Will never keep The wolves away.
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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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My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.
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Dreams are a sweet mistake All dreamers must awake On, then, with the dance No backward glance Or my heart will break Never look back.
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My main goal is to tell a story.
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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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Anything that is white is sweet. Anything that is brown is meat. Anything that is grey, don't eat.
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Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.
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Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new.
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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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Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.
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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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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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White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony.
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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've always preferred actors who sing to singers who act in all the shows I've done.
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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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I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs.
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