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I've always preferred actors who sing to singers who act in all the shows I've done.

Stephen Sondheim

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Stephen Sondheim
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: March 22
Author
Composer
Dramaturge
Librettist
Lyricist
Musician
Poet
Screenwriter
Songwriter
New York City
New York
Stephen Joshua Sondheim
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Preferred
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I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken the choosing was not. You have to move on.
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In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.
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When you trance out properly, when you're completely in that world, there is no other world, so there's no conflict.
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The more you cling to things, The more you love them, The more the pain you suffer, When they're taken from you.
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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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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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Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new.
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