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Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new.

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Stephen Sondheim
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: March 22
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Composer
Dramaturge
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Lyricist
Musician
Poet
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New York City
New York
Stephen Joshua Sondheim
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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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