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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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New York City
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Stephen Joshua Sondheim
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It's pleasanter to work in the country, where you can wander out among the trees. But I don't get as much work done. In the city you don't want to leave the room because there's all that chaos going on.
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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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I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it.
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Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead.
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To wish and wait From day to day Will never keep The wolves away.
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I get some flak for and some resistance from colleagues for because I'm interested in storytelling. I mean what I like about songwriting is songs used to tell a story.
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Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.
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You move just a finger, say the slightest word, something's bound to linger-be heard.
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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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