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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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Composer
Dramaturge
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Musician
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New York City
New York
Stephen Joshua Sondheim
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The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.
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All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.
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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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I'm before him on my knees, and he kisses me He assumes I lose my reason and I do. Men are stupid, men are vain, Love's disgusting, love's insane, A humiliating business-oh how true.
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When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.
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Lemuel Ayers had had a huge success producing and designing Kiss Me, Kate. He wanted to produce this as a musical. I got the job. It was a professional score.
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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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I'm sure many writers have these strange, tiny little habits.
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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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Pointillism takes emotional images, character, etc., and makes them all come together and make a whole that tells a story.
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With videotaping, on the second generation you're already losing some of the freshness.
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Slotted spoons don't hold much soup.
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My cage has many rooms.
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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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Into the woods--you have to grope, But that's the way you learn to cope. Into the woods to find there's hope Of getting through the journey.
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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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My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.
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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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I do not hope for what I cannot have! I do not cling to things I cannot keep!
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Sometimes colleagues in performance are absolutely astonishing.
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