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Art is craft, not inspiration.
Stephen Sondheim
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Stephen Sondheim
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: March 22
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New York City
New York
Stephen Joshua Sondheim
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So here's to the girls on the go Everybody tries. Look into their eyes, And you'll see what they know: Everybody dies. A toast to that invincible bunch, The dinosaurs surviving the crunch. Let's hear it for the ladies who lunch Everybody rise!
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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 man i'll never be, Who remembers him?
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Tonight, tonight, won't be just any night. Tonight there will be no morning star.
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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'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it.
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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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I like murder mysteries, the Agatha Christie kinds of things where you know that it's all going to be neatly wound up at the end.
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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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If I got involved with the chat rooms and Facebook and everything - I would probably never leave. That's why I don't do it. I literally don't do it. At all.
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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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I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.
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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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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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