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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
Author
Composer
Dramaturge
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Musician
Poet
Screenwriter
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New York City
New York
Stephen Joshua Sondheim
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