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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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Stephen Sondheim
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: March 22
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Composer
Dramaturge
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Musician
Poet
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New York City
New York
Stephen Joshua Sondheim
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I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.
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I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it.
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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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