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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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Stephen Sondheim
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: March 22
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Stephen Joshua Sondheim
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I was raised to be charming, not sincere.
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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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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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