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Pointillism takes emotional images, character, etc., and makes them all come together and make a whole that tells a story.

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Stephen Sondheim
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: March 22
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Composer
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Musician
Poet
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New York City
New York
Stephen Joshua Sondheim
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I was raised to be charming, not sincere.
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In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.
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Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.
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I didn't really want to write just lyrics, but I wanted to meet Leonard Bernstein. Music was always the first reason I was writing songs.
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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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White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony.
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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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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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Ah, but if you have no expectations, You can never have a disappointment.
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Everyone tells tiny lies, what's important really is the size.
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Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.
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That's the trouble with awards for a body of work. They always come at both a good time and a wrong time. Good because they tell you what you've been doing was worth the doing and wrong because they ought to come when you're young and excited and hungry for assurance that what you're doing is worth the doing.
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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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When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.
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You get used to the exact amount of space between lines. You write a word and then you write an alternate word over it. You want enough room so you can read it, so the lines can't be too close.
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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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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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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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