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Anything that is white is sweet. Anything that is brown is meat. Anything that is grey, don't eat.
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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The more you cling to things, The more you love them, The more the pain you suffer, When they're taken from you.
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With videotaping, on the second generation you're already losing some of the freshness.
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Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.
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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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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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If I cannot fly, let me sing.
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