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Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.
Stephen Sondheim
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Stephen Sondheim
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: March 22
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Dramaturge
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New York City
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Stephen Joshua Sondheim
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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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Let the moment go. . . . Don't forget it for a moment, though. Just remembering you've had an and when you're back to or makes the or mean more than it did before. . . . Now I understand! And it's time to leave the woods.
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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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Everyone tells tiny lies, what's important really is the size.
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Over a period of time it's been driven home to me that I'm not going to be the most popular writer in the world, so I'm always happy when anything in any way is accepted.
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To wish and wait From day to day Will never keep The wolves away.
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Sometimes I'll ask the book writer to write a monologue, not to be performed, just as if they were notes for the character.
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Bit by bit, putting it together... Piece by piece, only way to make a work of art. Every moment makes a contribution, Every little detail plays a part. Having just the vision's no solution, Everything depends on execution, Putting it together, that's what counts.
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There's something inimical about the camera and song.
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White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.
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They wanted me to be a concert pianist, because I had a very good right hand, but my left hand's terrible and I hated performing.
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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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