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It's not so much do what you like as it is that you like what you do.
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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Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father. I liked my father a lot, he was a swell fellow, but I didn’t see him very often because my mother was bitter about him and did everything she could to prevent me from seeing him.
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I don't like the word 'career'. When somebody says to me, 'oh, you've had such a wonderful career', I think, 'career - that's after you're dead.' I just don't think that way.
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You may know what you need, but to get what you want, better see that you keep what you have.
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Gotta watch out for directors.
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I was raised to be charming, not sincere.
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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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I do not hope for what I cannot have! I do not cling to things I cannot keep!
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Just remember, Someone is on your side (our side) Someone else is not While we're seeing our side Maybe we forgot: they are not alone. No one is alone.
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For anyone approaching any one of the cast albums, if they don't like what they hear, it's not the performer's fault.
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To wish and wait From day to day Will never keep The wolves away.
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So here's to the girls on the go Everybody tries. Look into their eyes, And you'll see what they know: Everybody dies. A toast to that invincible bunch, The dinosaurs surviving the crunch. Let's hear it for the ladies who lunch Everybody rise!
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White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.
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Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution.
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Sometimes colleagues in performance are absolutely astonishing.
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Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.
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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 don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it.
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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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The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.
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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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