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I do not dwell on dreams I know how soon a dream becomes an expectation How can I have expectations? Look at me, No, Captain, Look at me, Look at me!
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 took piano lessons when I was 6. I didn't want to go on with it. I don't remember being moved by a piece of music.
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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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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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You may know what you need, but to get what you want, better see that you keep what you have.
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I liked my father a lot, but I didn't see him very often because my mother was bitter about him. He remarried, and I used to have to sneak off to see him.
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Take a play that you like but you think is flawed, and see if you can improve it and turn it into a musical. [...] Then make up your own story.
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TODD: The history of the world, my love -- LOVETT: Save a lot of graves, Do a lot of relatives favors! TODD: Is those below serving those up above! LOVETT: Ev'rybody shaves, So there should be plenty of flavors! TODD: How gratifying for once to know BOTH: That those above will serve those down below!
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No one has ever known me as clearly as you. No one has ever shown me that love allows everything. Not pretty or safe or easy but something I never knew. Love within reason, that isn't love and I learned that from you.
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I get some flak for and some resistance from colleagues for because I'm interested in storytelling. I mean what I like about songwriting is songs used to tell a story.
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My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.
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For me it's more fun to find an unexpected moment for a character to sing when you don't expect them to.
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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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White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.
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The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.
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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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You move just a finger, say the slightest word, something's bound to linger-be heard.
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The man i'll never be, Who remembers him?
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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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Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.
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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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