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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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The truth is that I don't like rehearsals. I get embarrassed hearing my own work. I assume that the cast is embarrassed to sing the stuff.
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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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Bit by bit, putting it together... Piece by piece, only way to make a work of art. Every moment makes a contribution, Every little detail plays a part. Having just the vision's no solution, Everything depends on execution, Putting it together, that's what counts.
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If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.
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The more you cling to things, The more you love them, The more the pain you suffer, When they're taken from you.
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Almost all the shows I've been connected with have been extremely well cast. They're playing the show, not just doing the songs.
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You move just a finger, say the slightest word, something's bound to linger-be heard.
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Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.
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Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution.
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There's a hole in the world Like a great black pit And the vermin of the world Inhabit it ... And it goes by the name of London.
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Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.
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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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For me it's more fun to find an unexpected moment for a character to sing when you don't expect them to.
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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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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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Sometimes people leave you Halfway through the wood Others may decieve you You decide what's good You decide alone But no one is alone
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My main goal is to tell a story.
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Let the moment go. . . . Don't forget it for a moment, though. Just remembering you've had an and when you're back to or makes the or mean more than it did before. . . . Now I understand! And it's time to leave the woods.
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I'm sure many writers have these strange, tiny little habits.
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I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.
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