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To wish and wait From day to day Will never keep The wolves away.
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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By the time I get through writing a score, I know the book better than the book writer does, because I've examined every word, and questioned the book writer on every word.
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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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You have to be submitted for the Pulitzer, and unbeknownst to us, a choral director whom I know had submitted us.
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Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new.
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Gotta watch out for directors.
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Slotted spoons don't hold much soup.
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TODD: The history of the world, my love -- LOVETT: Save a lot of graves, Do a lot of relatives favors! TODD: Is those below serving those up above! LOVETT: Ev'rybody shaves, So there should be plenty of flavors! TODD: How gratifying for once to know BOTH: That those above will serve those down below!
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The Tonys ignored West Side Story. The Tonys ignored Gypsy. It's a kind of public humiliation.
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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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Almost all the shows I've been connected with have been extremely well cast. They're playing the show, not just doing the songs.
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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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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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If I cannot fly, let me sing.
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After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.
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I was watching him crawl, Back over the wall-! Then bang! Crash! And the lightning flash! And- well, that's another story, Never mind- Anyway.
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Opportunity is not a lengthy visitor.
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Ah, but if you have no expectations, You can never have a disappointment.
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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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Tonight, tonight, won't be just any night. Tonight there will be no morning star.
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