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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 don't like the word 'career'. When somebody says to me, 'oh, you've had such a wonderful career', I think, 'career - that's after you're dead.' I just don't think that way.
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When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't.
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Art is craft, not inspiration.
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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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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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You may know what you need, but to get what you want, better see that you keep what you have.
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Ah, but if you have no expectations, You can never have a disappointment.
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Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.
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Only capitalists get photographers.
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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!
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Into the woods you go again You have to every now and then Into the woods, no telling when Be ready for the journey Into the woods, each time you go There's more to learn of what you know.
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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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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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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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I do not hope for what I cannot have! I do not cling to things I cannot keep!
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The truth is that I don't like rehearsals. I get embarrassed hearing my own work. I assume that the cast is embarrassed to sing the stuff.
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Gotta watch out for directors.
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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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