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You may know what you need, but to get what you want, better see that you keep what you have.
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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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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Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution.
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Tonight, tonight, won't be just any night. Tonight there will be no morning star.
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Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.
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Opportunity is not a lengthy visitor.
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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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White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.
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If I cannot fly, let me sing.
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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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It's not so much do what you like as it is that you like what you do.
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Anything that is white is sweet. Anything that is brown is meat. Anything that is grey, don't eat.
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