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Everyone would like to be on Broadway, cause if a show works, you make a great deal of money and it allows you to write other shows.
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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Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.
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No one has ever known me as clearly as you. No one has ever shown me that love allows everything. Not pretty or safe or easy but something I never knew. Love within reason, that isn't love and I learned that from you.
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My main goal is to tell a story.
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I like neurotic people. I like troubled people. Not that I don't like squared-away people, but I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.
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They wanted me to be a concert pianist, because I had a very good right hand, but my left hand's terrible and I hated performing.
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What justifies a character singing one idea for 3 minutes on the screen? I get impatient and want the story to carry on. I don't get impatient in the theatre.
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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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Dreams are a sweet mistake All dreamers must awake On, then, with the dance No backward glance Or my heart will break Never look back.
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The Tonys ignored West Side Story. The Tonys ignored Gypsy. It's a kind of public humiliation.
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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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Take a play that you like but you think is flawed, and see if you can improve it and turn it into a musical. [...] Then make up your own story.
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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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Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new.
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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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Ah, but if you have no expectations, You can never have a disappointment.
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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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The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.
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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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