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Musicals are — particularly musicals — plays also, but musicals particularly are… the last collaborator is your audience, and so you’ve got to wait ’til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration.

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Stephen Sondheim
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: March 22
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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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Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.
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I was raised to be charming, not sincere.
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