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If I got involved with the chat rooms and Facebook and everything - I would probably never leave. That's why I don't do it. I literally don't do it. At all.
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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I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.
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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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The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.
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Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.
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I took piano lessons when I was 6. I didn't want to go on with it. I don't remember being moved by a piece of music.
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In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.
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There's a hole in the world Like a great black pit And the vermin of the world Inhabit it ... And it goes by the name of London.
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Lemuel Ayers had had a huge success producing and designing Kiss Me, Kate. He wanted to produce this as a musical. I got the job. It was a professional score.
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I've always preferred actors who sing to singers who act in all the shows I've done.
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Now, this one might be a little stringy, but then again, it's fiddle player. That isn't fiddle player, it's piccolo player. How can you tell? It's PIPING hot! Then blow on it first!
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That's the trouble with awards for a body of work. They always come at both a good time and a wrong time. Good because they tell you what you've been doing was worth the doing and wrong because they ought to come when you're young and excited and hungry for assurance that what you're doing is worth the doing.
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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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When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't.
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It's age. It's a diminution of energy and the worry that there are no new ideas. It's an increasing lack of confidence. I'm not the only one. I've checked with other people.
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Slotted spoons don't hold much soup.
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The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service.
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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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Tonight, tonight, won't be just any night. Tonight there will be no morning star.
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There's something inimical about the camera and song.
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Into the woods you go again You have to every now and then Into the woods, no telling when Be ready for the journey Into the woods, each time you go There's more to learn of what you know.
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