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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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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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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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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 Tonys ignored West Side Story. The Tonys ignored Gypsy. It's a kind of public humiliation.
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The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service.
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I was watching him crawl, Back over the wall-! Then bang! Crash! And the lightning flash! And- well, that's another story, Never mind- Anyway.
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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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I was raised to be charming, not sincere.
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Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.
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Slotted spoons don't hold much soup.
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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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