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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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New York City
New York
Stephen Joshua Sondheim
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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 something inimical about the camera and song.
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Slotted spoons don't hold much soup.
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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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I liked my father a lot, but I didn't see him very often because my mother was bitter about him. He remarried, and I used to have to sneak off to see him.
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Everyone tells tiny lies, what's important really is the size.
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I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs.
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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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White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.
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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 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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Sometimes colleagues in performance are absolutely astonishing.
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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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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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Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead.
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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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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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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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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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To wish and wait From day to day Will never keep The wolves away.
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