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White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony.
Stephen Sondheim
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Stephen Sondheim
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: March 22
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New York City
New York
Stephen Joshua Sondheim
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Success is like failure, It's how you perceive it, It's what you do with it, not how you achieve it.
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It's not so much do what you like as it is that you like what you do.
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I didn't really want to write just lyrics, but I wanted to meet Leonard Bernstein. Music was always the first reason I was writing songs.
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I was raised to be charming, not sincere.
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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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All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.
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With videotaping, on the second generation you're already losing some of the freshness.
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Any moment, big or small, Is a moment, after all. Seize the moment, skies may fall Any moment.
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Over a period of time it's been driven home to me that I'm not going to be the most popular writer in the world, so I'm always happy when anything in any way is accepted.
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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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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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It should be interesting to see two entirely different ways to treat a story, geared for two entirely different kinds of audience.
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The man i'll never be, Who remembers him?
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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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Ah, but if you have no expectations, You can never have a disappointment.
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