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Stephen Sondheim
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: March 22
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Stephen Joshua Sondheim
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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.
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I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.
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I liked my father a lot, but I didn't see him very often because my mother was bitter about him. He remarried, and I used to have to sneak off to see him.
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Sometimes colleagues in performance are absolutely astonishing.
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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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You move just a finger, say the slightest word, something's bound to linger-be heard.
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Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.
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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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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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Pointillism takes emotional images, character, etc., and makes them all come together and make a whole that tells a story.
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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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